UN human rights expert calls for higher taxes for those who can afford it {ireland}

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http://www.thejournal.ie/un-human-rights-expert-calls-for-higher-taxes-for-those-who-can-afford-it-141171-May2011/

A UN REVIEW of poverty and human rights in Ireland has found that the poor will bear the brunt of cuts to public spending and low taxes.

Dr Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona was appointed by the UN Human Right’s Council to carry out the review. She says government policies will have a serious impact on the most vulnerable people in society, reports the Irish Times.

Carmona says that cuts in spending which affect services for the poor and vulnerable, combined with low taxes for those who could afford to pay more places a burden on the poorest people.

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1. Ireland, the right-wing success story

the model the conservatives want to follow right here in the U.S.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/148993/right-wing_think_tank_praised_ireland%27s_%27economic_freedom%27_..._and_then_its_economy_crashed/

It hasn't even been a year since the Heritage Foundation placed Ireland among the top ten countries on its Economic Freedom Index. I wasn't intending to write about Ireland at the time, but any time the Heritage Foundation holds up any country as an economic example attention must be paid. It's an invaluable opportunity to learn what not to do, in terms of economic policy.

Even way back then, in April of this year, Ireland's economic crisis was serious enough to make it a real head-scratcher that anyone would place it on top ten list, and hold it as an example of economic success, as the Heritage Foundation's Index is intended to do. Ireland is indeed an example. It's nearly a textbook example of the epic failure of conservative economics to grow an economy and austerity to spark a recovery.

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