Taxpayers funding SSIAs

I was shocked by recent reports that the government's Special Saving Scheme is to cost taxpayers €3 billion. As a hard-pressed, taxpaying, mortgage-holding, working father, I could not afford to avail of this large transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the haves.

This government has totally lost the run of itself if it thinks that taxpayers should fund the pension schemes, foreign holidays, new cars and bank balances of the well-heeled while ...