Not exactly Irish in scope, but it goes without saying that those able to afford to pay increased taxes (over 250,000 a year). I’m approaching this not from a strictly socialist point of view but as a person living in a capitalist system. With that in mind, surely those who are given the opportunity to earn such wages in a capitalist system should be in a position to give something back to the people upon whose labour they have benefited.
If the trickle down theory was accurate, then taxes would be increased for the rich, especially in a time like this. Alas, capitalism is not a logical system, so faith in it will not allow better services and increased taxes to materialise.
I do enjoy the real news analysis, and I appreciate that they can not espouse any particular political views as that would disrupt any unbiased journalist ethics, but analysing these events from a capitalist perspective only gets us so far. The problem is not that the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes, but that they are allowed to earn these sums in the first place.
This may be an unfair perspective. The real news gives us the facts and a different perspective, allowing us to make of the story what we will.
