80,000 marched in Ireland Saturday against water privatization & then this happened…

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19. Yes that's exactly the problem. As a PAYE worker, I'll be paying for water one way or another but to

lump it on to wages as extra tax, is highly regressive and does nothing for water conservation. Ironically, it allows their bête-noir, Denis O'Brien, fill his swimming pool and every one else is paying it ! The likes of Murphy/Boyd Barrett/Ogle are varying degrees of Trots and are more interested in bringing the system down, instead of offering any solutions. I can understand people are hurting, but as we know, anger is not a policy. There is no direction to it, and perhaps only the current rise in the economy can reduce the anger, but some have been given in a new lease in life in being angry.

I completely agree that the Government made a compete mess of setting up IW, though that wasn't helped by the non-payment campaign. Phil Hogan was like a pig dropping a big turd and walking off to Europe.