Posts by Dr Nat O'Connor
Dr Nat O'Connor @natpolicy
Dr Nat O’Connor is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at UCD, a fellow of the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy and former Director of TASC. Nat also previously worked at Age Action, the Labour Party, Ulster University and the Homeless Agency. You can find him on LinkedIn (natoconnor) and TwitterX @natpolicy.
Franklin D Roosevelt's 1935 Message to Congress on Tax Revision
Nat O'Connor 24/03/2015
Nat O'Connor: What follows are excerpts from Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the USA (1933-1945), Message to Congress on Tax Revision, 19 June …
Five Progressive Views on Greece
Nat O'Connor 20/02/2015
Nat O'Connor: Queries: The European Progressive Magazine circulated five articles about the Greek crisis, all of which are relevant to Ireland. Click …
More on Ireland's Low Taxation and Income Tax Progressivity
Nat O'Connor 20/02/2015
Nat O'Connor: The OECD provides a table of its member states showing total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP. In 2012, Ireland's total tax revenue …
Getting Beneath the Surface of Gross versus Net Income Inequality
Nat O'Connor 18/02/2015
Nat O'Connor: TASC's new report, Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland, is designed to provoke deeper debate about what is and is …
Ireland's 'Progressive' Income Tax System
Nat O'Connor 16/02/2015
Nat O'Connor: Some commentators keep referring to the progressivity of Ireland's income tax system, as if it was the silver bullet that makes …
Response to Dan O'Brien's 'Bunkum' Article
Nat O'Connor 16/02/2015
Nat O'Connor: Dan O'Brien writes that "claims about great inequality in Ireland are just bunkum". Having had a look at the arguments in support of …
Inequality: a Real and Growing Threat to the Irish Economy
Nat O'Connor, Cormac Staunton 16/02/2015
Nat O'Connor and Cormac Staunton: Economics has always been about the study of who gets what, when and how. This issue has come into sharp focus due …
Benchmarking Ireland's Income Tax against the Anglo-Saxon World
Nat O'Connor 06/02/2015
Nat O'Connor: The Irish Times reports that the Government may be considering benchmarking tax on higher earners against what they would pay in the …
Why Half of Irish People are Willing to Pay More Taxes
Nat O'Connor 26/01/2015
Nat O'Connor: Most people want Ireland to be more equal, and they want this to be achieved through boosting the minimum wage, capping high pay, …
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