Dan O'Brien

Basically, whether it's PRSI, whether it's USC, whether it's income tax, they're just different names.

They're all exactly the same thing.

They are personal taxation.

So people sort of fixating on USC, they really don't matter.

The point is that once you get to 44,000...

every single euro you earn over that if you're a single person, the government is taking more of it than you get to keep.

Now, in my view, that is absolutely an abomination.

It was something that was brought in 18 years ago as an emergency measure.

We are – the amount of increased expenditure the government has put in place over those years is staggering, highest in Europe.

And we are still being taxed in a way that, you know, for people on just 44,000, very average income, very few countries in the world have a system where they take more than half of your money.

In Ireland, we're having it at average incomes.

It's insane.

Liam, do you want to come in there?

Liam, broadening the tax base is the number of taxes you have, the number of people who pay.

I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about the amount people pay for every additional euro they earn that the government is taking more of it than they do.

And that is profoundly unfair in my view.

Yeah.

Listen to the fiscal watchdog.

Every year, the government is spending more than it promises.