Sir – There’s nothing curious about it. Mark Haddon (Report, August 16) is spot on.
People earning more than £150,000 a year (that’s £2,885 a week!) should be paying more tax. Wealthy taxpayers should be providing more money to invest in things like homes, railways and a low carbon future.
It’s the sensible way to get us out of the Coalition’s double-dip recession. Just borrowing more is no use because it puts us into the hands of the speculators. Nicola Blackwood MP should be campaigning to keep the 50p tax rate for the very rich, not voting to scrap it.
She and her Tory and Lib Dem friends vote to cut benefits, increase train fares and starve local councils of funds. At the same time they slash taxes for the very rich.
Good for Mr Haddon. We need more incidents like this. Day time and night time!
John Tanner, Board member for a Cleaner, Greener Oxford, City councillor for Littlemore & county councillor for Isis
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