Moral maze of extreme wealth
OTHER than our beloved Queen, how can anyone genuinely and honestly deserve the exorbitant, almost immoral, weekly wage of £300,000 – the figure commanded by, and paid to, Wayne Rooney?
I have never doubted his immense ability to play football, but his talents are limited to this particular sport, unlike so many who provide a much greater and more unselfish service to the world in general.
From: JC Penn, Birch Tree Drive, Hedon.
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Hide AdWHY is it unknown for the very rich to go on strike? Are they not allowed to ask for increases in their wage or better working conditions?
From: Robert Heys, Bar Lane, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge.
I AM no great admirer of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls et al (Red Ed’s failed socialist policies offer nothing to Britain, Yorkshire Post, February 5), but I have little sympathy for those who have written bewailing the prospect of a five per cent rise in the top rate of income tax for well-heeled millionaires, many of whom threaten to exact revenge by taking themselves and their cash to tax havens overseas.
Such individuals are clearly the direct descendents of those wealthy “patriots” who, when this country faced the threat of invasion during the Second World War, fled to the USA and Canada.