Again—Billionaire philanthropy is PR. Stop falling for it. Yes, $50M is a lot of money, but had Musk simply paid his taxes at the actual 37% rate, he would’ve paid $5.18B in taxes—which is 104X his donation.
Taxation of Billionaires > Philanthropy from Billionaires
Can someone please tell Leo Varadkar that being a landlord and charging rent is not a job but rather an investment. And in investing there is no guaranteed income. It’s a risk. A gamble. You don’t go to a bookies bet 100 quid, lose the bet and demand 120 quid back.
Tánaiste and the government really should read some stories of “peoples income” or as it’s known, exploiting renting students and how it’s escalating the housing crisis. The government are letting young people down as always.
https://t.co/q2ge9mlvcD
Meanwhile there are tonnes of purpose-built student accommodation, green-lit by idiots, with no one to rent them because they’re too expensive/ only available to wealthy students 🙃 Is no one at the wheel?
This is the worst student accommodation crisis we have ever seen in this country.
Despite warnings from myself &others that this crisis was coming,Government largely ignored it. As a lecturer, I see students are stressed, anxious, exhausted @irishexaminer
https://t.co/5MPSMzak1t
So the state can mandate that a 14 year old girl carry the pregnancy forced upon her by a rapist to term and endure delivery at her age, BUT the state CANNOT mandate that same girl wear a mask at school, because that's too great a burden for the state to impose. WHAT?
"But the gov don't provide bins" I know I know, but cop on there's still no excuse for littering. Bag it up and bring it home or at the very least leave the bag beside a bin.
Members and talented women filmmakers, do you have any shorts that are 10 minutes or less and finishing up their festival lives? Then how about submitting to https://t.co/baAVo3V5er ?