A chara, - The frank admission by the property developer Mark Kavanagh that his £100,000 gift to Charles Haughey was "a hard-headed business decision", combined with the Moriarity Tribunal's accusation that Fianna Fail failed to provide full information on this donation, explains many economic oddities that have puzzled me over the years.
I could never figure out how property developers were able to engage in speculation and profiteering without any windfall tax being imposed. Now I know.
I couldn't understand how Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax kept being lowered, thus risking inflation. Now I know.
I couldn't comprehend the strict controls on workers' wages, while there was no control at all on directors' fees and "expenses". Now I know.
What I still find amazing, though, is that the FF/PD Government is so arrogant as to continue with policies which worsen inequality and dismiss those of us who question this as "left-wing pinkos" and "creeping Jesuses"! - Is mise,
Cllr Dessie Ellis, (Sinn Fein), Dunsink Road, Finglas, Dublin 11.