275 sleeps to xmas, 124 for insomniac’s

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Clocks forward by one hour tonight. we all know what that means, only 275 days to Christmas.

Awaken Longford, you need to post shorter messages,thanks.

The Household Charge Debacle

The reason for the existence of the Household charge is, the Government of Ireland agreed, as part of the EU/IMF Bailout deal, that they would introduce a Property Tax in Ireland in 2012, but because they issue is so contentious regarding how to apply this tax the Government has taken the arbitrary and easiest path of introducing a flat tax of €100 per household in the interim until they can come to some arrangement to implement an overall solution to Property Tax.

This Household Charge is wrong and unfair on many levels, some of which are:

It affects every household in Ireland equally without taking into account, ability to pay, value of property.

There is no consent from the people of Ireland to this tax, much less the EU/IMF Bailout which gave birth to this tax.

It requires each household to provide information to the Government in order for them to take the Tax – Registration – Voluntary Disclosure.

The Government of Ireland is happy to continue to waste massive amounts of money in other areas of public expenditure while imposing new taxes on the citizens, what right minded person would agree to pay more services while the money already being paid is being squandered, this is akin to saying to an alcoholic “you keep spending all your money in the pub and we will give you additional money to pay your rent”.

The Government continues to breach agreed pay cap levels for Bankers, Public Representative Advisors and continues to pay themselves and Senior Civil Servants exorbitant wages, they continue to pay the Debts of greedy Bankers, and errand Property Developers.

It is time for the people of Ireland to demand nothing less than the absolute highest standard of our Public Trustee’s whose only mandate to govern is the implicit welfare of the people of Ireland and nobody else.

This is not a difficult mandate to understand, if there is a requirement to raise taxes, the legislation should not be introduced unless all other avenues of raising the required funds has been explored.

This Government has followed what it perceived is the path of least resistance in attempting to raise additional taxes by way of the Household Charge, they are lying to the People of Ireland in stating that the purpose is to fund Local Government to provide and maintain services, this money will never reach the accounts of local government, there will be no transparency to demonstrate and prove that it will, the Government thinks that it can obfuscate the issue and portray the finances of this Country as so intricate that the common man could never understand them, but they are dead wrong, the Irish people are educated, we understand such things, and we no longer come with pitchforks, we come with knowledge!

The Politicians of Ireland, over the past 30 years have proven that they are not trustworthy, that they are corrupt and they will now reap the reward for treating the Irish people with such disdain, the trust is gone! We will examine everything, we will question everything and I for one will go to prison before I pay this illegal Household Charge.

Now we are told that Phil Hogan has instructed that Local Government agents will call to the homes of citizens who do not acquiesce to his dictat for the sole purpose of attempting to use intimidation as a tool in this State sponsored extortion, he threatens to garnish wages, to break into the accounts of Citizens at take this erroneous tax and to mark a lien against our property, we now know how low this Government will stoop in order to obey the orders of their European Banking Masters, if this is done once it will set the precedence for a repeat at any time in the future and will become the norm.

The Government profligates more lies by issuing opinion polls which indicate they will attain a yes vote to the Fiscal Compact Treaty referendum, that their approval ratings are on the increase, if this is true then Ireland has well and truly transformed into a sham State and the sacrifices of our forefathers have well and truly been in vain, they fought for eight hundred years to gain freedom for a mere 90 years, only to be sold into slavery and servitude of a different kind.

The last time I checked, Ireland was still a Sovereign Democratic Republic and its Citizens still held the right to self determination, unless we the people call a halt to this madness by peaceful, civil disobedience this government, our public trustees, will take us to the point of no return and beyond and our future generations will pay the price for our folly.

The Household Charge is as good a cause as any on which to make a stand, so for all our sakes, resolve not to pay!

http://www.awaken-longford.com

They dont till next week end ???