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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9this is rabbittes way of ensuring the d4 guys and gals in montrose rte continue to get big salaries.......this is what its all about......
This is extortion tax,i agree.
We need to be out on the streets demanding resignations.
If this was another country,like paris they simply wouldnt stand for it.
Were fucking eejits to be putting up with this crap,not enough money to clothe and feed our kids adequately.. yet 600,000 a year pat kenny is smiling at us with his smug smile through our television sets,its enough to make my blood boil over..
What makes our government think the poor are happy about paying these extortionate salaries,i do not want to be forced into a situation where im like 'oh i might as well get a tv and plug into rte seeming that i have to pay for it anyway'. And im sure a lot of people will be co-erced into this mindset.
A lot of people dont watch rte, dont listen to rte, dont want any thing to do with rte yet i will be FORCED to pay this 160 extortionate fee.
When are people going to wake up to this country and put a stop to it,we need people power to overthrow these bastards.
Think of the average bills people have 1. property tax(are the council going to mow my lawn as part of this so called ''service?'... 2. water charges,(its only something like 3 cent per gallon in some countries,like saudi arabia that has to pump water in from the deepest part of the ground,and south america,yet were being ripped off)3.broadcasting charge 160 per annum,whats left for paying the car tax,road tax and nct???what about house insurance?
clothes for the growing kids?food on the table?
This is just as unfair as the TV Tax, why should a single mother have to pay the same amount as the richest person in Ireland?
With RTE around with their heavy subsidies they are stifling the market. It's amazing that Irish people cant see this. Sell RTE, scrap the tax and there will be a flood on new stations and Irish programming.
This is ludicrous, having to subsidize a "State" Broadcaster to put out government propaganda. Do Irish people really want news or propaganda? It will also result in more people being jailed for not paying this unjust tax.
While the bourgoise of D4 swan around in their 4x4's after slogging in 4 hours at the RTE studio,being paid buckets off our backs,there are starving children and mothers who are literally beside themselves with depression wondering how on earth they are going to pay their bills and on top of that have food on the table..
There are cancer patients who just got the news off of minister james o reilly that their medical cards are being revoked.
The gap between poor and rich is getting wider and wider by the year,why are we the poor bailing out the banksters and property gangsters/politicians?
Why is it up to us to do all this,while they don't cut their own salaries,yet increase their salaries off our own backs..
Someone needs to challenge this in the european court of human rights,its my human right not to be extorted for money i simply do not have.
The TV licence fee was introduced (not in Ireland) to fund a State maintained television service (the BBC). It was never intended to be a fee for owning receiving equipment but has been twisted that way.
Ireland does not have a State-funded tv station - all of Ireland's national broadcasting services are commercially funded by advertising that cannot be avoided by viewers unless they switch off their sets.
A good lawyer could wrap rings around this Government's intention if anyone was capable of funding a High Court appeal on this issue.
For starters the salaries should be brought in line with reality. There is no market justification for the extravagant salaries at RTE.
And,2 points: First, Pat Rabbitte calls people freeloaders - this from the man who will soon be on a 150K pension to which he has contributed about 5%. Talk about freeloaders - thats rich coming from him the fat fucking gout prick!
Secondly, this new tax will ensure that Pat's BFF's in RTE can continue to overpay its 'star' presenters & continue to lose as much money as it wants ad infintum.
RTE gets money from 2 sources: Advertisments,and the State.
The first link is of pat being heckled in a pub,the second one is of pat admitting to pre eleciton lies..
When is this country going to wake up?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUFn-keQns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAS0c5AkiNg
Pat kennys salary was 900,000 in the boom (and it is now currently at 600,000) of course his pay salary is going to rocket back up to 900,000 after this unjustifiable broadcasting charge is brought in..
Pat Kenny's unjustifiable salary is possible because of ordinary taxpayers money. RTE is funded by both private ad revenue and tax money (via TV Licence). It should be one or the other, not both. It's what makes RTE the bloated, unimaginative, political and nepotistic organisation that it is.