Budget 2015: The road less travelled? We're on the road to God knows where...
Give a little here, take some more back there. Tax water, and offer tax relief from the water tax. Cut the income tax rate, and increase the rate of the income tax known as the USC. Pump up the smoke, install the mirrors, and off we go. You’ve never had it so good, people. Sit back and enjoy the view here on the far side of austerity.
Hints of the future could be glimpsed on the approach to Leinster House in the hour before Michael Noonan got to his feet. Where once Moles-worth St was heaving with protesters at this time, now there was an eerie silence down the cordoned-off thoroughfare. Knots of yellow-jacketed gardaí stood around, prepared for anything but apathy.
