Varadkar warns ‘middle classes can’t keep paying’ – National News – Independent.ie

MIDDLE-INCOME families who have been hit hardest by austerity and stealth taxes cannot take another “hammering” in the Budget, senior Fine Gael Minister Leo Varadkar has said in what will be seen as a blunt warning to Labour that the ‘coping classes’ have had enough hardship.

The Transport Minister has warned that a property tax is just about the limit of extra taxation that ordinary working people can take in the December Budget and that raising extra revenue from middle-class voters — such as taxing child benefit — was not sustainable.

He also indicated strongly that the new property tax would have to include some measures which would stop the charge becoming essentially an urban tax.

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