Letters to the Editor

Updated October 17 2016 - 10:25pm, first published 8:17am

Why are the old and poor the biggest target?

LOST: The approval under delegation without a council vote of the alterations to a heritage home in Webster Street for a clinic threatens to change the neighbourhood.
LOST: The approval under delegation without a council vote of the alterations to a heritage home in Webster Street for a clinic threatens to change the neighbourhood.

I hear on the news older people in this country are going to be taken to the cleaners again. You work for 50 years and pay your taxes for 50 years, in some cases fight for that country, and then when your working life is over, you're treated like dirt. To get old in this world is like putting a target on your back. There's always some government department taking aim at you now, wanting to take some to the cleaners for their pension payments. The less you have, the more they want some of your money.

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