You still can’t tax your way out of a recession

SO WHAT can be said about the budget announcements stretched out over two days earlier this week?

Given that they were preceded by Enda Kenny’s State of the Nation polemic which bore a marked resemblance to a similar one of 30 years ago when the nation was also in a bad way, one can only conclude that one Charles J Haughey is still with us, if not in body, then in spirit. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Whilst Charlie advised us that we were all living beyond our means, he continued to live the high life and still bought his bespoke shirts in Paris.