Government penalises married couples

Dear Editor, It is good to see Prof. Ray Kinsella speaking about the breakdown of the family as those who have a duty, the authority and also the means to speak in defence of the family have been silent (IC 06/08/2015). His accusation that the tax system (re tax individualisation) is leading to family breakdown is only part of the story. Since the seventies Governments have been penalising married couples in many ways, one of these is through the tax system. The legal profession alone takes over €200m from families every year.

These are just some of the means governments have been using to destroy families. During the eighties a number of TDs tried to warn what was happening to the family, these were silenced one way or another. This begs the question why are our bishops continuing to act for the Government in marriage? 

Yours etc.,

David Kelly, 

Crumlin, Dublin 12.