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.

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.

I don’t blame people for availing of this bonanza, but I have serious reservations about those who legislated to make it possible. One thing I am certain about is who is responsible for this robbery. It’s the PD/FF coalition.

Who else would have the arrogance, or should I say the stupidity, to shoot itself in the foot in such a daring manner.

Patrick J Fitzgerald

Leperstown

Dunmore East

Co Waterford