Yes - my first reaction on seeing the hit was 'where can I cut spending'. I thought that as well as 'the hit' we would have seen incentives to spend. Some are saying the increased DIRT and CGT is an incentive not to save, but I hardly think that will work.
I am willing to bear it (but not grin), but we really will need to see some improvement. My big fear is that VAT receipts will take a big loss now. Spare cash is gone. But hey ho - what can you do, eh?
Now that FF have taken another huge chunk of my income the result will be that I must reign in my spending ,even more.
We are the ones that pay for the public sector and now we have to once again pay for the lack of balls that FF have to reform the public sector.
It reminds me of the Simpsons.
Where they wanted rid of the bears.....but then had a riot because of the bear tax !!!
Class episode, and if I remember correctly they finally blamed it on the immigrants.
After, morgage (fixed rate,so no gain from current cuts) ,car,insurance,car tax ,petrol,house insurance,life insurance,car loan,petrol, health insurance,food,tv licence,esb,gas,phone registration fees,school books ,uniforms ,confirmation,communion,birthdays and anything else which I cant think of right now, there was not a lot of cash left and now FF have taken that.
Not to stand up for them. But which of the above did they cause....your car loan ?? Phone fees ??? increase in car insurance ??? conformation, communion ???
We choose how we spend our money. If we get a big car loan or a fixed mortgage it is our fault. We choose to have big birthdays, pointless parties and eh the odd trip to the hairdressers.
I grew up with nothing, none of the above and am no worse off. Maybe we need to get back to basics.......i've had enough of the now generation. Disposable income is something new in this country. Not all of life can be a breeze and pleasure.
This is not personally at you but at our society in general.
Although the Gov have definitely made mistakes in recent times, I am starting to feel a bit sorry for them.
They have everyone on the opposition and in the public telling them they are doing everything wrong, including the Budget,Take FG - they said they could fill the hole in the finances WITHOUT increasing taxes. Absolute nonsense.yet one person has been able to tell them exactly how to solve the problems WITHOUT hitting us all with extra taxes and cut-backs.
And then we have the public complaining about every increase implemented. We continue to hear that we are all ready to take the pain, but when the pain arrives then we get nothing but complaining. This country is on its knees and on the verge of bankruptcy, yet we still have the petty fighting between parties and the public wanting cutbacks, as long as its not to them.
I was not voted in by the public to solve the problems which FF created.
They were voted in and they caused the problems.
Yet they are not prepared to do anything about the elephant in the room.
I dont think people are complaining for the sake of it,the reality is that FF made a balls of things and now we are paying for it.
It should not be as bad as it is.
As usual they hit the easy targets.
No
The logical conclusion is you live within your means and if you can't go to the hair dressers etc......TOUGH
Tell me this then ,should everyone not buy a house car etc,just in case the goverment decide to take the money which was budgeted for?No but is it the governments fault for everything. Was "basic" car or house mentioned ??
Its a free society correct, but if you can't budget correctly and earn the money to pay the bills is that the governments fault in this "free society".
In the past we have had no disposable income, do we have a right to it ???
Do you have a right to a b and c ?? NO
If you want a car, house, trips to the hair dressers, big birthdays etc thats your life. If you can't afford them its not the governments fault ?? Did they sign the papers for your fixed rate mortgage or car loan or tell you to go to pointless parties ??
The logical conclusion is you live within your means and if you can't go to the hair dressers etc......TOUGH
Everyone has lost money and has to cut back but is it just the goverments fault or have we been living beyond our means for a long time and now its all biting back ??
Some of us did live within our means. Its not helping us much now.
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