Paying for the NHS - the fair way!

As your editorial rightly says, if this country wants "decent services that care for us all, we must all be prepared to pay for them" (Honesty about tax rises and funding for the health service is long overdue, 24/05/18). But not necessarily the same amount, as the £2000 per household "warning", in the report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation, implies.

 How can people whose real wages have consistently fallen in recent years, whose benefits have been slashed and debts increased, and whose rent to greedy landlords takes up to 50% of their earnings, afford to pay more in taxation? Any further cuts in the spending power of those earning less than average pay will only do more damage to already fragile local economies. The only fair way to find the money is by taking it from the massively under-taxed wealthy individuals and profitable companies, and by ending tax avoidance and evasion.