Letters: Stop interfering
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Three cheers for Purnima Tanuku! (Special Report, 13 September). Lest we forget:
1. Profit is not a dirty word.
2. Government (local and national) creates neither jobs nor wealth. Private business does that, though government is quite good at destroying both, with its bureaucracy.
3. Private business pays for both itself and so-called 'government funded' projects through the taxes that the government levies.
In the area of early years childcare, national government has already been seen to be capable of idiotic interference - absurdly low child:teacher ratios and the insistence on a degree-qualified practitioner being only two of the more egregious examples.
The whole concept of Sure Start has been called into question and £21bn of taxpayers' money has been, if one is to believe the newspapers, largely wasted.
Government should stop interfering in private business and get back to its central role of sensible regulation. The desire to interfere in every corner of the private citizen's life must be rebuffed with all the forces at our disposal.
Christopher Price, co-owner, Merton Court School, Sidcup, Kent.
