Change of editorial policy at the Sun, the tits are on page one from now on.

Property tax … A tax on debt. The more I owe, the money I pay! Simply not fair.

All this to pay back bankers who took a gamble and lost. It’s madness and its unjust. The bondholders in the German banks are responsible for their own actions which were motivated by greed. Why is our government impoverishing its own people to pay a debt we do not owe? Time to go back to the GPO?

We need to seriously start contemplating scrapping the current form of Govt and the Seanad has to go (it’s the most expensive charity in the world now). We need to recruit experts and forward thinkers to run the relevant departments.

Let the people vote for these experts to run the Dept of Finance, Health, Transport etc. For example would you vote a school teacher to run the country? Would you vote a Doctor to run Transport? Imagine going into the Mater and sitting an interview for a Surgical post and telling them that you were a carpenter but you fancied a crack at the job. These are all middle men that need to be eliminated.

The biggest problem with this country is we are now and always will have to, overpay for bad management.

As of from today, Kenny & Gilmore has officially pimped Ireland to the fat cats of Europe. Lying bastards that they are.

why is there no mechanism to get rid of these people they have become part of an european civil serice ye got rid of one crowd of opressors just to go on and adopt an other “ah thanks very much now sur for yer kindness” never mind the gathering, 2013 time for change its time the irish people signed the eviction notices for the dail, As for labour only one word SHAME!

Our government are corrupt german lapdogs.They won’t change until Cowen and Ahern are hung outside Anglo.When the government fear the people you have a republic.When the people fear the government you have a tyranny.

As I listened to the Budget from foreign shores I thought enough is enough… Did Noonan actually have a photo shoot with the media? Ireland is heading into a 20 yr stagnation period, as much as I thought it wouldn’t I don’t see an alternative as we lack forward thinkers in government currently. We have a potentially massive oil and gas industry waiting to be tapped literally but no movement on this issue from our inept ministers…. Everyone can cut cut cut but takes REAL leadership to make tough decisions.

Enda you have been evicted please leave the Dail……

The people must stand together and say “No”.

We can still bring their plans down.

Our biggest weapon is our refusal!

Clearly the Irish government wants to make Ireland an unattractive place to live. Unfair taxes all over the place! The Irish people voted in the 1970s for property taxes to be abolished and taxation to happen centrally. People who suggest property tax is fair are crazy. Tax on income is fair if painful. Tax on assets is theft. And in many cases these people have heavy mortgages that they are struggling to pay. I note the government has not relaxed bankruptcy laws so it is still possible to go to jail or have your life ruined in perpetuity for not being able to pay bills.

They say the tax will be 0.18% of the value of the home. Which value will they use? Today’s? House prices are dropping. Will the tax drop accordingly?

What scares me is that we can criticise Enda, Eamon & co all day long (and so we should after yesterday) but we have zero viable alternative. If by some electoral miracle FF made a comeback that puts them in striking distance of government, do we really think it would be any different? We have a complete deficit of brave bold leadership innovations of the kind we saw at the end of the 1950s. Instead there is this well oiled spin machine that scares the living crap out of the people: the run-up to this budget was a master-class in how a government could manipulate the collective emotion of an entire nation. They have us by the goolies, body, mind and wallet.

All this pain and hurt so as to give €5 billion to Anglo in march who then give it to the central bank. Crazy. Just print the €30 billion and it’s over. It won’t be going into the economy – so no inflation. No pain for anyone. The UK and USA have been doing it. Why not Europe.

Welcome to your electoral choice Ireland!
The sheeple voted as they were told to and now we’re at budget 2013.

they seriously dont know what desparate state people are in, they are cutting me to the bone. i cant give anymore, i dont know where my next food shop will be, im already making meals last 3 days, which is just vegatables , no meat. my wife is on iron tablets cause we cant buy meat. now property tax and all the other cuts…….i really dont know what else i can cut. i dont heat my home to often and now more tax on solid fuels, i can see me ending up in jail for debt, but where will my child go. i dont know anymore………

There is hardly even a middle class anymore. There are the rich and wealthy sailing along every year, probably laughing at my family and hundreds of thousands more who are just about making ends meet and producing a meal for ourselves. People are saying every year (like I have heard in work the last few weeks) that things won’t and can’t get any worse this time. Well reality has hit and things of coarse are getting worse.
Time for a wake-up call?

I wonder how much the Irish can actually take…. before something snaps is there a breaking point?

The irish times is another liar saying cuts to hit every adult in the state. lies. It will not hit the wealthy and those on high salaries anything like the devastation it will do to the low paid and poor. But the times is the paper of the well heeled so I supposed they have to be seen to be siding with them in Mock sympathy. Another useless rag.

That daily mail is disgusting and liars. They talk about no real pain for the VERY wealthy. So are they trying to say the wealthy were hit? CrAp. And how dare they say welfare was increased when they cut childrends allowance and a load of other welfare cuts like electricity and phone allowances cut to the elderly and those on disability to name a few. And they cleverly single out working families as worst hit. This is not the only group who will suffer. Yes they are but Those on welfare are the worst hit. They don’t give a damn about the poor and the prescription charge increased by 200 per cent us cruel and deliberate hardship on the poor. Now its a bill in itself and some of us can no longer afford the medication we need because of all the other bills and costs. Daily mail you are shameful with your clever selective manipulating headline. Thank God I never buy the rag.

Well said Joe.