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Anthony McIntyre
10/03/2002
The president of Sinn Fein has argued, rightly, that the very least that should happen to tax dodgers is that 'they are declared not fit to hold public office.' It would seem that the ranks of the 'not fit' could swell considerably if the public begin to apply the same logic to duty dodgers and demand answers to the question 'what do members of the Stormont Assembly get paid for?' Do these alleged representatives ever look in the mirror in the morning and momentarily get caught out - experiencing just a twinge of guilt over the 'brown envelope' that is euphemistically called a wage packet? Have they occasionally felt the type of shame they try to instil in those poor who 'do the double' as they, in the splendour of their plush rooms, calculate their extra large expenses bill (always a useful device for schemers 'on the make' to defraud the public purse)?
7:19:30 AM 
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