Madam, - I am appalled at the campaigns under way against bin taxes in Dublin. The rural population have been paying these charges for years, as well as for other services such as water rates, which Dubliners do not have to pay.
Why should these services be free? It is these same selfish attitudes to recycling, littering, planning, clientelism, etc. that have the country in a shambles, despite a decade of unprecedented economic growth.
Such narrow-minded, individualist thinking has left us with the mess of a State that we deserve. -Yours, etc.,
LIAM WEEKS,
Loughanamon,
Claremorris,
Co Mayo.
Madam, - I could not help noticing on Wednesday, as the bin-tax protesters departed the scene of their protest at Portmarnock and entered their cars to return to wherever they had come from, their vehicles displayed evidence that they had paid their car tax.
Presumably they also pay their electricity tax, gas tax, telephone tax, cable TV tax, etc., etc. - Yours, etc.,
EAMONN WALSH,
Senior Engineer,
Environment Department,
Fingal County Council,
Swords,
Do Dublin.