Tag: wages

  • Taxing Wages – OECD 2015

    Just released today. So, lets see how Ireland groans under a uniquely high burden of wage taxation shall we. Lets look, for illustrative purposes, at a single income average wage earner.

  • Wage control: Only for the pixieheads

    Wage control, it seems, lke much in Ireland, is for the little people. The pixieheads get patted on the head and told how good we are to bear down and buckle up, while the protected elites roll on.

  • Stabilizers

    Ok..this is going to annoy everyone I suspect… One of the things that strikes me about the debate in Ireland is the fundamental misunderstanding that exists about the public sector. There is a large constituency of people who exhibit tendencies in their discourse that suggests that any wage over zero is too high – these are the die-hards whose…