22 thoughts on “I’ll Scweam And Scweam And Scweam Until I’m Sick

  1. Goosey Lucy

    The dog in the street knows we will “pay” for water, either directly or through taxation. Even if some of them won’t admit it. Nothing new added to the debate there.
    HOW we pay for it, and by WHOM is another story.

  2. Anne

    It was always a money making exercise with huge costs involved in funding the quango that is Irish Water and their consultants and siteserv for the metering.

    Just get rid of the quango, and the cushy deals with DOB and fix the bloody leaks. Massive increases in motor tax was supposed to pay for it.

  3. diddy

    The vince vaughan of FF, Barry the enforcer cowan was on his high horse on prime time last night. They cut the legs of FG over irish water as their “power at all costs” ethos dictates. They will continue on this populist path until they are returned to goverment later this year. Once there, water will be paid for by the squeezed middle ( yet again) FF and cronies will will pay FA. The dole and diso and everything else social welfare brigade will get a waiver. Normal service will resume.

    1. Robert

      Eh it was always going to be the squeezed middle paying one way or the other. This was always just a way of charging the wealthy less tax.

    1. Otis Blue

      That €100 conservation grant was particularly egregious. A blatant bribe to the electorate.

  4. AnAccountant

    Some good ol’ Indo neo-liberal propaganda. ‘Respect authority or you’ll be sorry, little plebs.’

  5. 15p

    someone here once said;
    “The international merchant banks want Ireland to have water changes so they make billions from interest and investment in privatized water supply and their shills are in Irish mainstream media, the Government, the EU institutions and any influential institution.
    The Troika loan had water charges written into it, not because it was seen as an efficient tax base but because it would require private merchant bank investment and guess who advised the Government on that loan? Goldman Sachs and Rothschilds who are heavily invested in water treatment and supply around the world.
    This is about the theft of public resources by international investors. Nothing else.”
    and i clearly have it saved coz im bad at words.. and these words are good

    1. Jimjam

      What a load of tosh. Clean water costs money to produce and deliver to your tap. Under the FF/AAA/PBP model we can all leave every tap in the house on permanently and not be charged a cent. Economic and environmental nonsense.

  6. eric cartman

    We have 2 choices here, either the employed tax payer bares the burden for paying for water (like they bear the burden for everything else) or everyone bares the burden for the amount of water they actually use (which will be the first time the unemployed have ever had to pay for anything except alcohol and cigarettes really)

    I would prefer to see a system where everyone pays for the water they use, it might be an unpopular view but its the fairest way of dealing with this. While you would argue that it will lead to unemployed people having water cut off, I would counter that with it would stop millionaires filling swimming pools or washing a fleet of cars without charge.

    Everyone paying water charges for what they use is the fairest way.

    1. anne

      Vat is chargeable on most goods and services, not just cigarettes and alcohol. And the tax take could be increased by not touching tax on labour – paye.

      1. anne

        The Tax take could be increased by taxing thise wirh obscene wealth –

        http://www.peoplebeforeprofit.ie/2017/03/new-rich-list-reveals-obscene-inequality-need-for-wealth-taxes-richard-boyd-barrett/

        In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit TD has described as “scandalous and obscene”, the figures for the wealth of Ireland’s richest 300 people, revealed today in the latest Sunday Times Rich-list.

        The latest Irish Rich-list shows that Ireland’s super wealthy elite, with a combined wealth of €77 billion, are richer than ever before and that their wealth has surpassed that of the Celtic Tiger era.

        “These figures showing the enormous and dramatically increased wealth of Ireland’s multi-millionaires and billionaires are truly scandalous and obscene.  When you consider the extent of poverty, deprivation, homelessness and unnecessary hardship being suffered by so many in this country, it is utterly scandalous to learn that just 300 people have enough wealth to solve all those problems, ten times over.

        This new rich-list, once again, reveals Ireland’s dirty little secret: All the poverty, homelessness and suffering we witness day in, day out, is not necessary but is, actually, the product of the sickening and growing inequality in the distribution of wealth in this country. The flip side of the coin of children sleeping in emergency homeless accommodation or sick people waiting years for vital operations is an ever wealthier elite, who profit in the midst of this misery and pay little or no tax.

        If even ten per cent of the wealth of the richest 300 people was re-distributed through the tax system, it would solve all the problems of poverty, homelessness in this country and provide the desperately needed funding for our health service and other vital public services.

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