There has been a lot of militant talk in recent days about a refusal to succumb to the new household charge, but a poll on myhome.ie suggests we’ll probably end up paying it anyway.
This morning, Eamon Dunphy became the latest high profile figure to support the growing mass of people outlining their intention to refuse the pay the annual €100 household fee, with the likes of Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Thomas Pringle and ubiquitous protester Joe Higgins also leading the fight.
On the streets, meanwhile, many have defiantly told anyone willing to stick a microphone in front of their noses that there’s no way they’re going to cough up the dough.
But is it going to be a case of all smoke and no fire? Are we all talk and no action? That’s what a poll on myhome.ie today would seem to suggest.
Beneath a lengthy blog from Karl Deeter supporting the imposition of the tax, 63 per cent of people said that they didn’t agree with the tax, but 55 per cent of people said that they would still pay it anyway.
Considering that the vast majority of pollsters would have completed both questions, that’s 18 per cent of people who aren’t ready to stand by their convictions.
It begs the question: ‘Where’s our fight?’ In a year where ‘the protestor’ was voted the Time magazine person of the year, are Irish people just content to suck it up?
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