‘Would you like tax highs with that?’

IT was refreshing to see Minister for mass Unemployment Mary Coughlan prepare for what might befall her when voters finally catch up with this Government as she took her place behind the counter at McDonald’s.

“Would you like tax highs with that?” may not be the most customer-friendly slogan, but it will be all she and her colleagues have to say when they serve up deep fried spending cuts at the April 7 emergency Budget bucket spectacular.

Obviously, the Tánaiste was not actually flippin’ burgers on a FAS restart scheme — that would be silly, everyone knows FAS has blown the cash for such useful initiatives on the failed attempt at an Irish space programme they dreamed up to justify the“fact finding” trips to the beach in Florida — no, Ms Coughlan was here to praise the saviour of the nation’s economy, Ronald McDonald.