Kite-flying-- not a child's fun game

Reprehensible budget kite-flying on old-age pension designed to target the most vulnerable - Financial Services News | Business News | The Irish Times - Mon, Aug 12, 2013: "Kite-flying has become one of the more reprehensible features of the the annual Irish budget jamboree – generally designed specifically to target the most vulnerable sections of society in the hope that other, less austere measures on budget day will be greeted with relief. If this is the transparency of process the Government promised us in its handling of budgets under its watch, it has little to commend it. Already, this summer, targets have included child benefit and pensioners’ free travel."

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