VAT hits the poor | Rees-Mogg reproduction | Cinema pay | Rabbits in pies | Iceberg measuring | Names for skeletons
Deirdre Burrell (Letters, 13 July) overlooks the scam that income tax is the only one that matters, and that the low-paid are not taxpayers. The poorest pay the most in VAT, which the Tories increase whenever they can, and which accounted for 14% of total tax in 2010.
Keith Yarwood
Blandford Forum, Dorset
• It is senseless to criticise African mothers for having “seven to eight children” (Opinion, 12 July) when often this is their only insurance against a poverty-stricken old age. The Rees-Moggs, however…
Victoria Paleit
Southmoor, Oxfordshire
