Final nails in the coffin of retail sector

THE admission by Finance Minister Michael Noonan that he intends to increase the VAT rate to 23% in the run up to Christmas will surely be the final nail in the coffin to the retailers of this bankrupt state.

The private sector, the engine of the economy, has been pummelled and is now to be filleted on the high altar of a mad fiscal austerity policy: even our new paymasters in the troika would not place further obstacles to the ability of the free market to operate. There is no doubt this will further depress the retail trade and send millions over the boarder this Christmas.

The Labour rump in Government is effectively wagging the Fine Gael dog; they have been welded to a bankrupt Croke Park agreement which is purely designed to protect their cosseted constituency. As Shane Ross stated when comrades O’Connor and Begg are silent they are happy as their friends in government are pursuing their selfish and destructive agenda.

The private sector has been effectively abandoned by all in political establishment to protect their own indecent and unsustainable benefits. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the so-called protectors of the small business community, are effectively pursuing a socialist agenda as they are merely senior civil servants looking after their own patch.

The vast abuse of the welfare state declared at €600 million per year and tolerated by an incompetent public service is merely the tip of the vast waste of a Stalinist-type self-serving administration.

Ms Burton has not a clue how much is going down this black hole while the private sector is entitled to nothing. Who in their right mind would employ anyone or start a business in this socialist and anti-enterprise state?

They are slowly but surely killing the enterprise goose. It is now vital that the private sector sets up a party to fight for their survival and their families and staff before we become the next Greece.

Peter Monahan

Mornington

Co Meath