Boyd-Barrett: Budget will protect bankers and super-wealthy

Today's Budget cuts announced by Minister Brendan Howlin are "savage, senseless and stupid", according to the People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett.

Boyd-Barrett: Budget will protect bankers and super-wealthy

Today's Budget cuts announced by Minister Brendan Howlin are "savage, senseless and stupid", according to the People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett.

Mr Boyd Barrett said that there were alternatives such as repudiating the debt and taxing the "super-wealthy", but it was a "political choice" to hit the least well-off in society.

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