Rich must share their wealth

Published: 11 February, 2011

• WELL done for publishing the article We’re going begging to the bankers (New Journal January 27). 

It’s not a crime to make money but it is a gracious act to spread it to people who, for various reasons, have very little  and not enough to allow them to lead a healthy life.

This is particularly true of the young, elderly and disabled. This approach of appealing to a person’s morals is an appreciation that people with money need help to know how to share it in an accessible and just way.

In the UK we are “governed” by David Cameron and Nick Clegg and their gang of inheritance millionaires, who live rent-free and travel-free thanks to Tony Blair’s money-making illegal war in Iraq, which not only cost a fortune but, worse still, was mass murder of British and Americans, plus many innocent Iraqis.

These millionaires even stopped money going to Pakistan. 

They seem to think we are all as ignorant as they are. Well we are not and we will out them and who knows what they will do then? 

Maybe they will take their places in Madame Tussauds, alongside other reactionaries.

Isla McCalman
Howitt Road, NW3

Contributions

• THE Labour group on Camden Council are doing right thing in asking wealthy residents for voluntary contributions. 

Services face severe cutbacks and with government reducing funds. Those who can afford to help support important council work should be encourage, they’ll be helping their neighbours and local area. No donations are compulsory, but poorer residents would be very grateful in these increasingly tough times.

Andrew Duncan
Bloomsbury

Robin Hood tax

• I KNOW we are in difficult economic times but there is one easy decision that could spare a lot of the “tough ones”.  

A proper tax on the banks could raise £20billion in the UK to help those hit by the financial crisis in this country and around the world.  

For every cut I hear the government announce I keep asking: could a tax on the banks have paid for that?

The situation we find ourselves in started in the financial sector and we spent £1.4trillion bailing them out. We are all paying for a party we weren’t quite invited to.  

I want to see my MP and leaders start fighting for a tax that would make Robin Hood proud.

Isn’t it obvious that “something’s gotta give”? 

SABINE McNEILL 
Goldhurst Terrace, NW6

Taking money

• IS it just me who thinks it’s a bit rich that the Liberal Democrat and Tory councillors are publicly opposing the cuts from the council? 

The last time I checked it was the Liberal Democrat-Tory government who were dictating the cuts and taking away money from the local government budget.

Why don’t the Lib Dem and Tory councillors help residents by having a word with their friends in government instead of wasting their time attacking local councillors?

M DENTON
Acol Road, NW5