Poll: How was it for you? What did you make of Budget 2015?

Good? Bad? Indifferent?

WHETHER IT WAS deliberately played down to manage expectations or whether the public has just had enough of fiscal policy, yesterday’s Budget 2015 announcement was extremely low key.

Some of the changes which have grabbed the headlines include a modest increase in child benefit, changes to the Universal Social Charge, and a hike in the price of a packet of cigarettes.

You can read more about it here, but given all that you know about it, how was it for you? What did you make of Budget 2015?

Poll Results:

No strong feelings either way (1868)

It was a bad Budget (1497)

It was a good Budget (1445)

It was a good Budget
It was a bad Budget
No strong feelings either way

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Christine Bohan

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