Well, I don't think that there was anyone who was looking forward to yesterday's mini supplementary Big Feckin' Emergency Budget, but sure I suppose at least now we know what's coming down the tracks. While Brian was busy announcing that he was doubling the health levy and income levy rates, I was busy thinking that he's really missed a trick.
Imagine the revenue that a levy on beauty faux pas could haul in for the State coffers! Oompa Loompa types could be taxed on a sliding scale, directly proportionate to their degree of orangeness and how tangoed their palms are. Similarly, girls sporting those gravity-defying fuzzy backcombed hairdos could be hit relative to the height and width of their 'do and the lowness of their side-parting.
That's Dundrum Town Centre taken care of, so.
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Oh, and anyone who chaws at their nails (hem hem, Himself), expels the contents of their nose sans tissue/hoicks up a lung and then gobs on the footpath (Dis. Gust. Ing.) could also be brought into this new tax bracket, going forward...
What pet peeves would you whack an aul' levy on if you had The Power?
