Tax the Dole - Kevin Myers

Kevin Myers is at it again.

In his latest rant, he has called for the taxing of social welfare, the old age pension and children's allowance.

"We have a "universal social charge" which is not remotely universal. It is not levied on the dole, or social welfare, or children's benefits, or capital gains, and only partly on pensions."

Maybe its easy for someone like Myers to talk about increasing the hardship caused by the Universal Social Charge, rather than admit the need for a wealth tax. Not so easy for a struggling family with a over inflated mortgage on their heads. Not so easy for the 20% of Irish children who go to bed hungry every night. Not so easy for our young unemployed who are being forced out of their country by the conditions that the people at the top end of economic society created.

Its a wonder Myers didn't just blame the leaders of the 1916 Rising for the recession again.

Pay your Universal Social Charge serf!

Being Irish is shit - Kevin Myers

That delightful West Brit Kevin Myers has had a wonderful article published in today's Indo entitled "Being Irish does not excuse us from adhering to a moral order."  In it, Myers admits his disdain for the Dunnes stores slogan - "The difference is we're Irish."

"What does the smug exceptionalism behind 'being Irish' actually mean? Does it mean that we may violate the universally accepted rules of God and man, and kill certain people whenever the mood so takes us? Does it mean that our bank regulators can ignore the cardinal rules of finance? And when our banking system collapses, does it mean those regulators can walk off into the sunset, with tax-free golden handshakes and inflation-proof pensions for the rest of their lives, which is what they did? Does it mean that the outgoing cabinet, which presided over the greatest sovereign-debt fiasco in European history, should similarly reward themselves? Well, they did too."

Yes Kevin, because of the corruption of an elite in our society, the Irish race has obviously be proven to be inferior and unfit for survival. Lets all head for the Gas Chambers. Myers can switch them on because hes the only one perfect enough to live on in a new world without Irish people.

"The 1916 Rising caused the banking crisis you know"

As well as rightly condemning the culture of political/Big Business corruption, Myers also manages to turn the article around to his pet hate, Republicanism. That's right, Myers manages to link an article about Ben Dunne and Michael Lowry to the Provisional IRA. He also manages to get pompous revisionist views on the 1916 Rising into print again.

"In three weeks, the State will once again celebrate the violent events in which hundreds of Irish men, women and children were killed."

Maybe Myers has his own fan base who like reading the same rhetoric about his views on the 1916 Rising over and over again, but I'm getting tired of it. For once, Id like to see him write about something else. Maybe a piece on Steve and Beckys marriage difficulties in Cornation Street. Or a critique of Bear and the Big Blue House. Or maybe a nice little article on the legacy of Katie Prices appearance in the "I'm a celebrity" series.

Ah whats the point.

He'd only find a way of linking it back to the 1916 Rising again.