Supporting the rich and hurting the vulnerable

MICHAEL McCarthy (Letters, Dec 3) states that “public service employees are not being asked to contribute on the same scale as the rest of us” to “the bailout”.

In this he is totally correct, they are being asked to contribute far more.

Non-public servants have seen services cut, the introduction of the universal social charge, changes in tax bands, increases in vat rates and a host of flat rate stealth taxes introduced.