Pass the Sudocrem!

That's right folks - you'll be needing plenty of it too, for today we have all been well and truly rogered by a large omnibus, driven at speed by one Brian "latchico" Lenihan!

The Salient Features Of Budget 2009 II ("attack of the clowns")

• The taxpayer to cover approx. €90 BILLION of Irish bank's "toxic assets".
• Income levy rates doubled to 2%, 4% and 6%
• Income levy thresholds lowered : 2% rate at €15,000, 4% at €75,000 and 6% at €175,000
• The taxpayer to cover approx. €90 BILLION of Irish bank's "toxic assets".
• The ceiling for employee PRSI will rise to €75,000. It's okay though everyone - TDs earn a lot more than this so they still get a huge proportion of income PRSI free.
• Christmas welfare bonus will not be paid this year. Darkpassenger has heard that Christmas will, in fact, be cancelled for all except politicians and bankers. It's a key pillar of the "Do as I say, not as I do" mission statement of the 30th Dáil.
• The taxpayer to cover approx. €90 BILLION of Irish bank's "toxic assets".
• A review of top-level public sector pay rates. Ha ha ha ha ha - that's a funny one! The latchico sees fit to commit economic rape on us now while lip service in the form of a "review" is paid to tackling the Ferdinand Marcos style reward system which exists at the top of our public sector.
• The taxpayer to cover approx. €90 BILLION of Irish bank's "toxic assets".
• The Commission on Taxation will decide on how to raise further money. No doubt this will involve screwing us, the hardworking people of Ireland, out of any money we may have left. DarkPassenger predicts that yet more Sudocrem will be needed at the time this commission reports to sooth the rawness in the aftermath of another attack from the latchico.
• Have I mentioned that we will be lumped with €90 billion worth of toxic assets that the greed infested debt bordellos (also known as banks) have accumulated over the last few years?

There's a load of other details that the DarkPassenger is too angry to list here. It suffices to say that the rich will be proportionally richer after this budgetery crime. Nice one latchico - your mates in the law library, the Dáil bar and every bank boardroom in the country will raise their glasses of Pétrus 1961 in honour of a job (for the boys) well done!