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The Guardian - UK
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Taxing issue of Germans bearing gifts

Ruling out free higher education, Alan Ware (Letters, 6 February) talks about “how to best match the provision of education and training with the needs of an economy”. How about changing our economic hierarchies and elitist privileges to best match the needs of our citizens? This how we ended up with the former free higher education and mandatory student grant.
Gavin Lewis
Manchester

• Perhaps Herr Schäuble (Report, 6 February) should offer the 500 tax collectors to the UK government to collect from the wealthy?
David Bale
Exmouth, Devon

• If you work beyond state pension age, you stop paying national insurance (Letters, 6 February). Why?
Jenny Haynes
Barton on Humber, North Lincolnshire

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