Urban and Rural Ireland - A tale of two Irelands.

[PaddyJoe]

How come the oil analyst on Prime Time looks just like Daniel Day Lewis in 'There will be blood'?

[Baron von Biffo]

Lab councillor Andrew Montague on SixOne now whinging that a value based property tax will see Dubliners having to pay in proportion to the services they receive.

[Slim Buddha]

Lab councillor Andrew Montague on SixOne now whinging that a value based property tax will see Dubliners having to pay in proportion to the services they receive.

Still propagating the myth that because most of the Cabinet happen to be mostly from around Dublin, the capital is some sort of a services EL Dorado??

So it is right for Dubliners to pay property taxes based on services received but the means testing of rural communities on total assets held is absolutely out of the question???

What piffle!

[Baron von Biffo]

Still propagating the myth that because most of the Cabinet happen to be mostly from around Dublin, the capital is some sort of a services EL Dorado??

So it is right for Dubliners to pay property taxes based on services received but the means testing of rural communities on total assets held is absolutely out of the question???

What piffle!

You do understand don't you, that means testing of assets isn't an exclusively rural matter?

[Slim Buddha]

You do understand don't you, that means testing of assets isn't an exclusively rural matter?

Of course, means testing is is something urban dwellers have been familiar with for decades.

[Baron von Biffo]

Of course, means testing is is something urban dwellers have been familiar with for decades.

Wow! That's amazing because rural dwellers were never means tested. They don't have to have TV licences or car tax either.

[Slim Buddha]

Wow! That's amazing because rural dwellers were never means tested. They don't have to have TV licences or car tax either.

You are right, Many don't-

[Baron von Biffo]

You are right, Many don't-

Not many, none of them. Didn't you know, there are special laws for rural dwellers about things like that? Petrol is only 50c a litre as well.

[Slim Buddha]

Not many, none of them. Didn't you know, there are special laws for rural dwellers about things like that? Petrol is only 50c a litre as well.

Compensation I suppose for living in a services hell where things are so bad, they surely cannot be expected to pay their fair share. I mean,it is traditional in Ireland that urban Ireland subsidises rural Ireland and rural Ireland finds this fair.

[Baron von Biffo]

Compensation I suppose for living in a services hell where things are so bad, they surely cannot be expected to pay their fair share. I mean,it is traditional in Ireland that urban Ireland subsidises rural Ireland and rural Ireland finds this fair.

Whether it says more about the standard of our education system or our capacity for self delusion I can't say but I suspect that you actually believe that's true.

[Slim Buddha]

Whether it says more about the standard of our education system or our capacity for self delusion I can't say but I suspect that you actually believe that's true.

There is no reason on earth why an urban dweller in a terraced house in, for example, Irishtown, should pay more in property tax than a rural scammer in a four-bedroomed bungalow monstrosity in Tullamore but I am sure you, as a semi-professional bean caoineadh and béal bocht merchant for the plain rural folk of Eireann are going to tell me why this is just and fair in your particular parallel universe.

[Baron von Biffo]

There is no reason on earth why an urban dweller in a terraced house in, for example, Irishtown, should pay more in property tax than a rural scammer in a four-bedroomed bungalow monstrosity in Tullamore but I am sure you, as a semi-professional bean caoineadh and béal bocht merchant for the plain rural folk of Eireann are going to tell me why this is just and fair in your particular parallel universe.

Ah yes, the rural dweller is automatically a 'scammer'. No doubt our Dublin dominated cabinet uses that sort of reasoning to justify closing hospitals and schools outside the M50.

[Slim Buddha]

I would be surprised if this proposed property tax, massively unfair as it is to Dubliners and other urban dwellers, survives. It is a hare-brained idea that must be opposed on the grounds of its inherent inequality. Dubliners should simply not put up with it! And certainly not pay it as long as the chronic imbalance remains.

[Baron von Biffo]

I would be surprised if this proposed property tax, massively unfair as it is to Dubliners and other urban dwellers, survives. It is a hare-brained idea that must be opposed on the grounds of its inherent inequality. Dubliners should simply not put up with it! And certainly not pay it as long as the chronic imbalance remains.

Tayto trumps Toblerone.

Live away from the Brits, FF and common law for as long as you like and a true Irishman will still find an excuse to dodge tax.

[Slim Buddha]

Tayto trumps Toblerone.

Live away from the Brits, FF and common law for as long as you like and a true Irishman will still find an excuse to dodge tax.

Well, I pay all the taxes I am supposed to pay. Do you?? Living away from horsecrap has its advantages, you know!!!