Landlords were ripe for mugging on property levy

ONE of the last acts of the current crazy government before it exited the stage for a long summer break was to impose a €200 levy on every second and subsequent housing unit in the state.

Desperate to extort ever more money from the citizenry under any pretext whatever, this measure, they told us, is to fund the activities of local authorities, ie, administration of parking fines, towaway schemes, car pounds, fines for illegal dumping, planning enforcement and so on.

All too aware that public servants and other groups are highly organised and refusing to pay any more to our incompetent rulers, they looked around for easy targets and saw that property-owners were ripe for mugging.