Dr Emma Howard

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282 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 25 Aug

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Today with David McCullagh · The Gathering · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

There we go.

Cliff Taylor has a very good piece.

I mean, our tax system is so complicated, you know, there's a lot of different factors to it, but they do pay less tax.

And so we do have, again, very concentrated income tax here.

So, you know, 20% of income taxes, sorry, 80% of income tax is paid by 20% of workers.

Now, that is...

there's a reason for it.

It's because we do also have a very progressive tax system.

So, you know, if you look at our take-home pay, we're kind of average in terms of equality across Europe.

But if you look at our labour market incomes, we're the most unequal in Europe.

So there are people on really high incomes who are paying a lot of tax, but, you know, that is redistributing wealth.

And, you know, if we're looking at tax cuts in the budget...

Like, do we want to be giving those tax cuts to those high income people at this point when we don't need to be pumping more money?

So you're spending all of those windfall corporation tax receipts, you're now planning to spend five out of every six euro of them, and you're planning to grow spending out to 2030 above the growth rate?

Just a really key point on Matt's point about universal free education.

So goods that have positive externalities like education should be free, should be heavily subsidised because when we've got a more educated workforce,

There are knock-on positive benefits to everyone in the economy.

When we look at fossil fuels, for example, they have negative externalities.

But we do need to be realistic.

But one of the things we need to do, and which I don't hear the government or Sinn Féin proposing at all, is the EU have said we need to increase electrification.

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