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.