Sir, – Further to your editorial (October 4th) on Minister for Finance Michael Noonan’s options, you should be mindful of the comment by William Cobbett (1763 –1835), the pamphleteer, farmer and journalist: “Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt”.
Messrs Noonan and Howlin could bear this in mind when framing the 2015 budget. – Yours, etc,
BERNARD BROWNE,
Old Ross,
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Co Wexford.