Wealth transfer from have-nots to haves

I WAS shocked by recent reports that the Government’s special savings scheme (SSIAs) is to cost taxpayers €3bn.

Wealth transfer from have-nots to haves

As a hard-pressed taxpayer, and a mortgage-holding working man with two children in secondary school and one in college, I could not afford to avail of this large transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the haves. I can see now why no such scheme exists anywhere else in the world.

This Government has lost the run of itself if it thinks taxpayers should fund the pension schemes, foreign holidays, new cars, bank balances, etc, of the well-heeled while hundreds of seriously ill people lie on hospital trolleys and a sizeable proportion of the population lives in poverty.

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