Richly undeserved

Published on 08/09/2012 00:00

If Andrew Anderson (Letters, 7 September) is correct, and a country’s equality is related to its prosperity, then Marxist ­governments the world over would have achieved boundless prosperity.

Simply pointing to countries that have a rich, tyrannical elite and no middle class does not prove that inequality is bad; it only shows the true nature of omnipotent government.

There is no sound rational basis for “tax the rich” 
policies; this idea was popularised by Marx and is rationalised envy.

It is also untrue that “there is no ‘simple fact’ of any 
importance” as this is simply 
an ­excuse to deny the reality that an economy cannot be taxed into growth.

Bruce Crichton

Victoria Road

Falkirk