Little change we can believe in

IT appears extra cuts will be made to the ordinary working peoples’ income, by increasing VAT, a regressive tax that hurts the poorest the most and hardly hurts the well-off at all.

It’s also claimed an €8 cut in the dole and a €10 cut in child benefit is being discussed, although no budget decisions have been made, and the Labour Party leaders could only support these cuts by breaking their pre-election promise.

Whether or which, one thing is sure: Ordinary working people, including some of the most vulnerable, are still being made to cover the gambling losses of wealthy people who operate in the world of international finance and pay for the incompetence and greed of those who wrecked the economy. The Government chose to make those who have paid the most already, pay again. An income tax increase would be much fairer because the more you earn, the more you pay (not counting legal tax avoidance possibilities that wealthy people may have).