An interactive Overwatch Report tool
Who Pays For Ireland?
Twenty real Irish tax and subsidy levers. The political conversation treats most of them as untouchable. This tool puts them in front of you and asks the question nobody on a podium asks: who do you want to pay, and who do you want to receive?
Before you start
Public debate in Ireland is stuck in a frame where "tax" means "tax on work." The much larger field of asset taxation, the things you own and the things you inherit, is treated as either non-existent or untouchable. The other half of the picture, the wealth that flows from the state to private holders through subsidies and reliefs, is treated as invisible. This tool exists to make both halves visible at once, on the principle that you cannot have an honest conversation about who pays for the country without seeing both directions of the flow.
Twenty questions. Each one is a real policy lever that exists in some form in some European tax system. Each has five options ordered from "current Irish status quo" through "European norm" to "aggressive redistribution." Pick the one closest to what you would actually choose. There is no right answer. There are trade-offs in every direction, and the tool will tell you what kind of society your particular set of choices builds.
Anonymous. No login. No tracking beyond an aggregate count of which choices were picked.