Middle-class let down by USC plans

Sinn Féin’s attempts to gain ground with middle-class voters is let down by its failure to reduce the punitive USC for those earners, as well as leaving the door open for a wealth tax.

Gerry Adams’ party has thrown in several sweet-eners for voters among pledges in its election manifesto.

However, the election wishlist, while cautious, is evidently funded by keeping crude taxes in place and piling on a few new ones to pay for the promised spending spree.