And who could blame her, I suppose?
Usually, we are used to dealing with Ireland's many room-based elephants on this blog - so here at last is one that just couldn't be ignored.
Sadly, "Baby" is back in custody after her brave bid for freedom.
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GM Elephants are extremely intelligent creatures. Now they can be said to have taste as well. I heard he was heading for the nearest Port.
ReplyDeleteAnd better - and more accurate, I imagine - memories than most Irish people, Dakota.
ReplyDeleteSaw Fianna Fail there on the news earlier pontificating about ethics in planning.
Pity poor Baby didn't make good her escape.
Make you wince GM, the same buffons and cretins (I'm being polite) that were a fundamental part of the collapse of the economy think they have a God given right to lecture about everything from planning (or lack thereof) to taxation (which the Gombeens think will solve everything). Remarkable how Animals (four legs, that is) can have a greater capacity to understand underlying environmental realities. This break for freedom could almost be an allegory for the times we live in, in Eire.
ReplyDeleteI hope dont mind posting this
ReplyDeletetwice case you didn't get it.
Laim Smullen
I am supporting a property tax
because it will rebalance away
from PAYE sector workers on to
new from hard cash wealth such
as income tax evasion such as self
employed, oweners of property assets, stocks/shares in companies.
It allow room for future
government cut not paye and VAT, but stamp duty on on first time
buyers.
Lets not forget that
during the 1980s at the time of the paye marches publicans and
farmers with huge lands payed very or no taxes because of they afford
the clever accountants.
prevously they paid house rates
but the fianna fail government of
jack lynch in 1979 got rid of them.
You could have second property pay
pay no tax on it that greens in the
last government imposed a €200 levy
on the second property.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/emer-okelly-how-attempting-to-pay-new-household-charge-has-pushed-my-buttons-2982578.html
More information on property taxs
http://www.progressive-economy.ie/2010/05/property-tax.html
http://www.progressive-economy.ie/
2010/06/property-taxes-and economic-growth.html
1 April 2012 05:55
I hope you don’t mind posting this
ReplyDeletetwice case you didn't get it.
Laim Smullen
I am supporting a property tax
because it will rebalance away
from PAYE sector workers on to
new from hard cash wealth such
as income tax evasion such as self
employed, owners of property assets, stocks/shares in companies.
It allow room for future
government cut not paye and VAT, but stamp duty on on first time
buyers.
Lets not forget that
during the 1980s at the time of the paye marches publicans and
farmers with huge lands payed very or no taxes because of they afford
the clever accountants.
previously they paid house rates
but the fianna fail government of
jack lynch in 1979 got rid of them.
You could have second property pay
pay no tax on it that greens in the
last government imposed a €200 levy
on the second property.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/emer-okelly-how-attempting-to-pay-new-household-charge-has-pushed-my-buttons-2982578.html
More information on property taxes
http://www.progressive-economy.ie/2010/05/property-tax.html
http://www.progressive-economy.ie/
2010/06/property-taxes-and economic-growth.html