“Repairs and improvements are overdue as are retrospective measures to enforce conservation about which the Minister was silent today. But rather than placing the burden on PAYE taxpayers the funding should instead come from wealth accumulated by a tiny minority during the building boom who had no regard for the water infrastructure. There is governement and media silence on the light tax regime that applies to this day on unearned wealth in this country – profits and dividends in particular.
“He seeks hundreds of million of tax to be raised from householders to cover the cost of water meter installation when reasearch by the Anti Water Tax Campaign has proven that this will make no lasting contribution to conserving water. The waste of time and effort being proposed to go into meter installation would be better spent on getting the repairs underway.
“The Socialist Party and its allies in the Anti Water Tax Campaign will wage a battle against the Minister’s false justification for the charge in the months ahead and actively oppose meter installation in 2011 and organise non payment of the tax in 2012!”
Defend higher education
The cynical posturing of the Green Party in calling for a January General Election for the “good of the country” will not save it from annihilation when the Irish people go to vote. In three and a half years in government, the Greens have shown themselves to be no more than a clutch of arch opportunists who were quite happy to assist Fianna Fáil make working class people pay for the consequences of the economic and political crimes of that party who carry full responsibility for the disaster which has been viswited on society.
Elect a campaigner to fight the cuts, not make them - Vote TOMMY BLACK in East Belfast and Pottinger on 5 May
As we publish this article the occupation movement has begun to spread all over the US.