Tax Reform: Voters don’t seem to like job friendly taxation…
With the rise of culture war politics across the west, what about policy? “Opposition politics is partly an artform…” said Steve Richards. “Policies about what you are doing to do…” retorts John Kay. Well, whichever it is, John FitzGerald thinks Ireland has a problem selling what he sees as job friendly taxes: Colbert, a French finance minister of the late 17th century, said: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount …