Fianna Fáil has steadily reduced direct taxation (income taxes) on the better-off while increasing flat taxes (VAT and rates), which is regressive and impacts most on ordinary people. The introduction of a Universal Social Charge in Budget 2011 and the lowering of the tax bands to bring more people into the tax net and more lower-earners into the marginal higher tax rate of 41% has unfairly targeted the least-well-off for tax increases and lessened these groups’ disposable income – doing more damage in the long-run to the State’s finances.
This example text from a political party manifesto is negative towards traditional morality, for example against religious moral values, for divorce or abortion, for modern families or separation of church and state