Let’s talk about our debt over a cup of TEA

YOU will probably have noticed by now that anyone who is lucky enough to have a job in our Republic is being increasingly targeted for taxation.

This comes at a time when virtually everyone has had to absorb reductions in their gross pay so a double whammy of lower top line income and higher tax rates are squeezing the bottom line.

Alongside that attack we are being hit too by rising indirect taxes. The decision to add a new levy to all non life insurance policies last week (to pay for the Quinn debacle) is one prime example. Jacked-up road transport taxes for supposed carbon control is another. The raid on pensions earlier this year was a stinger too. All of this is driving me around the bend.