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Columnist: 'Sexist' tax cut would benefit Ireland as a whole
Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2010-11-28 18:48
Article here. Excerpt:
'The revelation in the news yesterday of an IMF proposal to lower the income tax rate of Irish women returning to the workforce by five percentage points, was greeted with bemusement swiftly followed by derision.
A number of angry men were quick to cry foul, branding the initiative "sexist". One popular daytime radio presenter described it as a "tax cut for the girls" and went so far as to speculate that any additional take-home pay resulting from what he branded a "sexist law" would be spent on "shopping and hair". A secondary, more measured, debate arose between women with children, who tentatively suggested that there might be some merit in a measure that counteracted the prohibitively high cost of childcare in Ireland, and women without children, who felt that they would be disadvantaged.'
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Fairness be damned
She starts with the false assumption that there is a systematized set of barriers keeping Irish women from doing what, working? Then she says that it's not about fairness or justice but instead "what's good for the whole nation". Has she tested this? No. It can't be tested since there's no way to do so without doing it. But the "fairness test" is easily done. And it doesn't pass that one.
Why not extend the tax break to *anyone* re-entering the workforce-- bet that would do a lot to get underemployed people in Ireland back to work, but since this idea includes men, well, it just seems a bit too radical, doesn't it?
Slavery could help the nation
Slavery could help the nation too. But if that plan failed they could always kill (eat) the babies and import immigrant workers.
Lucky they don't need a fairness test.
Someone mentioned in the
Someone mentioned in the comments that the Irish constitution guarantees the state will protect women from working outside the home if they choose not to. I was planning to look that up later to see if it was true.
safe bet
this sort of pandering to women is just beginning, as we must all
look for ways to trim government spending.
my money says we will be seeing a LoT of this as we try to stem the
tide of red ink associated with gov. handouts.
i wouldn't be surprised if womens' groups come out with more handouts
than they get now, once the dust settles. remember, over half the population
has a vagina, and a good % of the rest resemble/worship one.
Interesting...
Everybody thinks the cure for discrimination, whether actual or perceived, is reverse discrimination. That makes no logical sense at all.
Evan AKA X-TRNL
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"Everybody thinks the cure
"Everybody thinks the cure for discrimination, whether actual or perceived, is discrimination. That makes no logical sense at all."
FTFY
crypter27
More feminist bullshit!
their own choice
"Yet decades of progressive equality legislation and cultural change have failed to remove the barriers that prevent women from realising their true potential."
What bothers me most about this article, is that they actually acknowledge the barrior of women in garnering those top positions... their own choice....
"The difficulties that undoubtedly exist in persuading productive women back into the workforce after childbirth have contributed to a situation where women account for just one in five management positions in Irish SMEs."
They need to be "persuaded" to re-enter the work field... and the solution, discriminate against men because they feel women's own choices to focus on family over career are wrong (and that's also men's fault).