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Will Ireland be better off after the Four Year Plan?

The government’s budgetary strategy will either set the country straight, or cripple economic development. Which is it?

THE PUBLICATION THIS AFTERNOON of the government’s Four Year Plan – which hopes to find €15bn in budget adjustments by 2014 – marks a significant programme of slashing government spending, while also hiking taxes through PAYE and VAT.

Do you think the Four Year Plan, with its €10bn in spending cuts and €5bn in new taxes, will make us or break us?

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I don't know (81)

Make us (68)

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