PD promises - Challenge to convince voters

HAVING lined the pockets of the rich with generous tax concessions in two successive governments, the Progressive Democrats are finally going after the hearts and minds of what they call the “coping” classes in next year’s general election.

Tax cuts have long been central to their electoral strategy, but now for the first time they are targeting middle-class voters with a sweetheart package plucked like a rabbit from a magician’s hat yesterday just before the end of the party’s annual conference in Limerick.

Married couples are the target of this silver bullet policy and would not come into the top tax level until their combined income exceeded the €100,000 mark.