Suffering taxpayers should not pay burden

Budget day is fast approaching and the amount of time left for its architects to scrape together sources of revenue that might deflect the burden of heavy taxation away from at least some of our citizens is diminishing.

The omens are not good as more and more would-be benefactors are ignoring our begging bowl.

This leaves Mr Noonan and his advisors with a large deficit which has to be settled, and it would be outrageous if the people are unnecessarily burdened.

I cannot remember that when Bertie and Co were busy inflating the Celtic bubble which eventually burst — hurdling thousands of naive people into negative debt in a jobless economy — hearing the Opposition who are now in government, uttering any words of warning.

The present outfit are talking about setting up an inquiry into how the banking system and the economy collapsed into its present chaos, but will not endow it with the power to bring adverse charges against the perpetrators.

Some inquiry.

Richard Prendergast

Rathcormac

Co Cork