We can’t have low tax and good public services

Bravo Desmond Fitzgerald (Letters, Irish Examiner, January 28).

Finally someone elucidating a simple (Nordic) equation highlighting the relationship between public taxation and world class public services.

All our political parties have persisted in peddling a US-style neo-liberal fraud when imagining that lower taxes can somehow enable the type of ‘first world’ public administration we rightly aspire to.

As the general election kicks off officially, it is time to call this deceit.

Tonie Walsh

Sráid Parnell

Cluain Meala

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