High cost of the new ‘queen of mean’

IF one assumes the average industrial wage to be €35,700, then a family of two children with one parent working outside the home and the other within will pay an extra €360 tax levy per annum.

It will require the efforts of another 113 families in similar circumstances to pay the leader’s tax-free and unvouched expenses (€41,000) of a non-existent independent party.

Verily was Leona Helmsley — ‘the queen of mean’ — correct when she stated that only the little people pay taxes. The queen is dead. All hail the new queen of mean, Beverley Flynn.