hibernia

Do you find Renua a bit left wing?

Fine Gael too bleeding heart?

Have we got the trickle down think tank for you.

Eamon Delaney, executive director of The Hibernia Forum, writes:

The Hibernia Forum [a new independent advocacy group dedicated to the principles of a free market, individual liberty and responsible and prudent Government] will make a statement on the forthcoming budget in the Georgian Suite of Buswell’s Hotel on Molesworth Street, Dublin on Tuesday at 11 am.

The submission will argue strongly that the Government’s proposals are not only excessive and spendthrift, but also that the whole manner and methodology of how our national budgets are assessed and presented is wrong and needs to be changed.

The Hibernia Forum calls for:

A rebalancing of tax and welfare over the next decade to significantly reduce middle class welfare (i.e. aim to eliminate the net benefit currently enjoyed by deciles 4-6) so that the burden borne by the top three deciles can be reduced.

The introduction of a Flat Tax to replace income tax, employees PRSI and USC. We will prepare and present a detailed report on this proposal in the future…..

FIGHT!

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35 thoughts on “Hibernomics”

    1. Bobby

      Ah here, are we in the US or what!? The word libertarian was used by anarchists to differentiate themselves from the more authoritarian-leaning ‘socialists’, who we now call communists, back in the day. These clowns aren’t libertarian.

          2. Lynsey

            That should have read “more in favour of small government than anti-government”! That’s what I get for typing on the run…

        2. Bobby

          No Lynsey, those organisations are really in the US. Most of the rest of the world’s libertarians are not into small government, they’re into a different mode of production, organisation, economy etc, outside of the instituions of the state and government altogether.

          Libertarians nowadays are still anarchists, it’s not that the concept evolved whatsoever, it’s that these right-wing Americans started using it, and other people don’t really understand what it means at all. I suppose anarchists are all lunatic bombers too..

          1. Lynsey

            So, you’re arguing against the existence of something that you just admitted exists… Ever heard of minarchists or libertarian socialists and their views on government? Someone just likes being argumentative, I guess!

    2. Neilo

      Ah, the ‘take people as you find them’ political philosophy so prevalent among the Broadsheet bien pensants

  3. MoyestWithExcitement

    I’m going to write a Facebook status update about the evils of supply side economics in a few minutes. Can I get it mentioned on Broadsheet as well?

    2. classter

      It should be clear by now that some see it as more than a tool but the source of all that is good & fair – the only moral way to allocate resources & the source of all true prosperity.

      Extreme right-wingers are not always angling for the favour of wealthy chums. Some of them are ideologues too,

    1. mauriac

      the flat tax shibboleth is absurd though.Even if ( and its a big if ) it proves the Laffer curve its unjust and would make Ireland the Ragged Trousered Philanthropist capital of the world.

      1. Frilly Keane

        Arra’
        It’ll give us sum’ting to fall out about
        And splinter

        Progressive Libs
        Or
        Professional Lib
        Or
        ReLib

        Which one are you Mary

  9. Boco

    Business people and investors advocating policies that benefit business people and investors. But sure won’t we all benefit, right?

  10. C-Sharp

    “We will prepare and present a detailed report on this proposal in the future…..”

    Listen to us! We have something important to say! At least we will have, hopefully tomorrow, though I’ve a few things on tomorrow and then there’s the match, could be a late one. Say this day week, or some day next week at any rate. Hopefully. We’ll be back to you.

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