Sir, – In response to George Walker's suggestion (June 9th) that emigrants should pay a tax in order to vote, we could then also have a sliding scale of taxes directly related to number of votes granted. The unemployed or elderly without incomes would therefore have no vote unless they could pay for it, and the wealthy could buy as many votes as they could afford.
Or maybe we should try a simpler approach, give all Irish citizens a vote, regardless of their ability to pay. I think the Greeks called that approach “democracy”. – Yours, etc,
RICHARD LOGUE,
London.