http://www.moneyguideireland.com/irish-budget-2010.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:11:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.moneyguideireland.com/irish-budget-2010.html/comment-page-1#comment-5688 lola Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:46:23 +0000 http://www.moneyguideireland.com/?p=536#comment-5688 agreed about the VRT it is illegal in terms of the EU free trade legeslation but as for people having a choice on what car they drive, they don't really I drive a car that was given to me by my mother its a banger and is barely road worthy i am on the dole i've 2 kids my husband is out of work i'd love a nice prius but i can't afford one, I live in a thirty year old house its freezing we get 390 a week on the dole and 60 goes into heating the house and i don't bother putting on the heat untill 5 in the evening because if the house were warm all the time it would cost 100 or more a week, again i can't afford to do anything to the house. I have worked all my life i've been working since i was 15 paying tax (it was legal back then), I alone provided a full time job for a creche worker or 2 with the amount of money i had to pay on child care while working ball park €1800.00 a month. myself my husband and my children have lost everything,our jobs our home the school they attended and we now have no hope for the future other then more misery more poverty and there's not a damn thing we can do about it, its intolerable and i would rather that the ground had opened up and swallowed all four of us then have to live the rest of our lives like this, I would not have had children if i had known i would be unable to pay for them or provide them with the things they deserve. agreed about the VRT it is illegal in terms of the EU free trade legeslation but as for people having a choice on what car they drive, they don’t really I drive a car that was given to me by my mother its a banger and is barely road worthy i am on the dole i’ve 2 kids my husband is out of work i’d love a nice prius but i can’t afford one, I live in a thirty year old house its freezing we get 390 a week on the dole and 60 goes into heating the house and i don’t bother putting on the heat untill 5 in the evening because if the house were warm all the time it would cost 100 or more a week, again i can’t afford to do anything to the house. I have worked all my life i’ve been working since i was 15 paying tax (it was legal back then), I alone provided a full time job for a creche worker or 2 with the amount of money i had to pay on child care while working ball park €1800.00 a month. myself my husband and my children have lost everything,our jobs our home the school they attended and we now have no hope for the future other then more misery more poverty and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it, its intolerable and i would rather that the ground had opened up and swallowed all four of us then have to live the rest of our lives like this, I would not have had children if i had known i would be unable to pay for them or provide them with the things they deserve.

]]> http://www.moneyguideireland.com/irish-budget-2010.html/comment-page-1#comment-5261 Martin Power Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:02:05 +0000 http://www.moneyguideireland.com/?p=536#comment-5261 I have no objection to a carbon tax, as it puts choice into the hands of the people, you have a choice on the type of car you drive, a choice on how efficient your home is. But in terms of a fuel tax on transport, it should be a stand-alone tax. i.e. vrt needs to be abolished. I have no objection to a carbon tax, as it puts choice into the hands of the people, you have a choice on the type of car you drive, a choice on how efficient your home is. But in terms of a fuel tax on transport, it should be a stand-alone tax. i.e. vrt needs to be abolished.

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