Is Leo Varadkar the world's greatest genius whose trying too hard to make us think hes not a genius or is the guy as big a moron as he seems?
I had to do a double take the other week when he said there would be no referendum on whatever that EU finance thing Noonan was trying to sneak in because a referendum would be (I shit you not) 'undemocratic'.
Now I read this in the Irish times. The context is that he won't drop the tax/VAT applied to fuel (petrol/diesel) because he feels increasing it in the first place didn't raise much extra revenue for the state. Here is the logic he applied
eh, yea Leo, cos people don't have any more money to spend.
Then this bit;
how about clothes Leo? Like, if not directly from clothes, from the money the people working in the clothes shops pay cos they still have a job, or the dole they don't have to draw cos they still have a job, or from those people manufacturing/importing/shipping the clothes (varying of course, depending on where and by whom the clothes were made).
Hes a bit of a dunce really, no? The new Conor Lenihan if you like. Eamonn Dunphy said that he used to like Varadkar, that he was always worth listening to, but since he became a TD hes lost the ability to think for himself. I don't pay very close attention to politics or politicians, but he ain't wrong about that second part.
Anyway I'm going to update this thread every time Leo says something stupid. I expect it to be a pretty active thread.
I had to do a double take the other week when he said there would be no referendum on whatever that EU finance thing Noonan was trying to sneak in because a referendum would be (I shit you not) 'undemocratic'.
Now I read this in the Irish times. The context is that he won't drop the tax/VAT applied to fuel (petrol/diesel) because he feels increasing it in the first place didn't raise much extra revenue for the state. Here is the logic he applied
“The Vat is 23 per cent but the evidence is that as people spend more on petrol or diesel so they spend less on other things. It is not the way people think it is. It is a crude comparison but people may spend less on clothes to spend more on fuel so there is actually no gain in terms of tax”.
eh, yea Leo, cos people don't have any more money to spend.
Then this bit;
Mr Varadkar said if there was a reduction in VAT on fuel, the money would have to be recovered elsewhere.
how about clothes Leo? Like, if not directly from clothes, from the money the people working in the clothes shops pay cos they still have a job, or the dole they don't have to draw cos they still have a job, or from those people manufacturing/importing/shipping the clothes (varying of course, depending on where and by whom the clothes were made).
Hes a bit of a dunce really, no? The new Conor Lenihan if you like. Eamonn Dunphy said that he used to like Varadkar, that he was always worth listening to, but since he became a TD hes lost the ability to think for himself. I don't pay very close attention to politics or politicians, but he ain't wrong about that second part.
Anyway I'm going to update this thread every time Leo says something stupid. I expect it to be a pretty active thread.