Merc I was talking to one of our local TDs yesterday he was saying how hard it was to get a taxi sometimes .I told him I could solve that problem and create a few thousand jobs with a simple change that would cost absolutely nothing .Id like to hear that he said .I suggested that the big problem the Dublin economy had is pay day surge and dip ..Most people are paid once a month ,this means that at the beginning of the month people have a lot of cash so go out to bars ,clubs ,restaurants causing a surge in demand for services but later in the month when there is less money circulating the demand for taxi and restaurant services drops meaning that people employed in the hospitality industries get less hours so pay less tax and recieve more welfare ,If the government issued a directive that salaries should be paid every two weekd in stead of monthly (the civil services pay every two weeks ) this would release money into the economy at a more controled rate and reduce early month surge and end of month lithargy where both taxi drivers and hospitality workers are sent home due to lack of economic activity .If there was a more ordered release of money into the economy more zero hour workers would get more hours people would have the same amount to spend but would do less binge spending .Most of the demand for taxies is around pay day weekends the third week of the month is usually a bit slower than the first .If you can control the release of money into the economy you can control the demand for services from taxies and hospitality and probably hospitals as there are less people demanding service at the same time .
