Revealed: The State Is Spending Almost Half Our Taxes On Welfare
Daily Mail › November 01, 2008
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THE nation's welfare bill is set to reach E20billion next year as tens of thousands flock to the dole queues - that amounts to almost half the predicted tax take for this year.
Social Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin has admitted that unemployment will soar by almost 50,000.See the full content of this document
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Revealed: The State Is Spending Almost Half Our Taxes On Welfare
She said that next year 290,000 people would be unemployed, with their families facing a bleak future.
The minister pointed out: 'My department...See the full content of this document
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