Ringfencing exorbitant salaries will fuel anarchy

MUCH and all as we want to be positive, government really goes out of its way to make being positive almost an impossibility.

It’s becoming easier by the day to accept the argument made by more and more people that our ministers and politicians in general are little more than marionettes totally manipulated by firstly our home-grown mandarins and secondly by our now European masters operating at the behest of world bankers and their local surrogates. We are merely dispensable pawns set to do their bidding.

Obviously, the 30 odd years that Enda Kenny has been ensconced in Dáil Éireann has ensured that he is as removed from the ordinary Irish taxpayer as anybody can be. Who in his right mind — at any time, but particularly when different forms of bread have just been defined as luxuries and thus subject to VAT for the first time — would suggest that “VAT hike gives people more choices than income tax rise”?