I WRITE in response to Tim Siret (Make the Rich pay to slash the deficit, Oxford Mail ViewPoints, June 10).

Two minds think alike. I go along with this gentlemen. I also think the rich should be made to help pay the country’s debt, especially those helping to run the Government and earning such colossal wages, many of them £180,000 plus per year, and they still had to cheat on their expenses.

Why should we, the hard-working and under-paid, always come off worst in situations like this?

We struggle to make ends meet as it is. If Cameron and Clegg are in such a hurry to pay the debt, they must pay too.

The other people who are making millions of pounds’ profit, such as the Post Office, British Gas, water companies, etc, surely they must be paying tax on their profits. What is happening to this tax?

David Cameron says it’s worse than he thought. If that’s the case, why does he go gallivanting off to Afghanistan to meet our boys over there?

The best thing he could do is to bring them all back home now. That would save a lot more expense.

Afghanistan’s problems are nothing to do with our country. So why send troops over there in the first place, wasting taxpayers’ money and costing innocent lives?

Where are the jobs Cameron pledged? We’ve heard nothing of these. Is this one of the big Tory cons again?

How long before Cameron starts closing down the few factories left in this country?

Not very long, now that Maggie Thatcher is trying to work her way back in offering him advice and help.

Poverty here we come.

PETER COLLETT, The Slade, Headington