DEAR News Of The Area,
TWO months ago there was a letter about plans to charge school age sportspeople for using sports fields.
The letter writer blamed the idea on “lefties”.
This has been niggling me and now I write, as a self identifying leftie, to clean up this misunderstanding.
Lefties wish to reduce inequality, tax the rich, give more support to battlers.
In contrast, the plan to charge sportspeople is a case of user-pays.
This is a Margaret Thatcher type plan and no one ever called the Iron Lady a leftie.
Yours faithfully,
Drusi MEGGET,
Port Macquarie.
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