IT WAS noticeable in the letters replying to your request for input on the extortionate level of Council Tax, that the majority concentrated on the division between workers and pensioners regarding subsidising the latter.

Whoever first proposed this idea has clearly followed the old saying "divide and conquer". What we all should be concerned with is the extortion aspect. Has anyone noticed the large member of new (awaiting evaluation for salary) council jobs that have been advertised in the Hereford Times week after week since the last council tax rise? Some of the job descriptions are comical (or would be, if the situation wasn't so serious). My own council tax (grade D house) is already swallowing three-quarters of my works pension. I am seriously considering contacting pensioners in Devon and Cornwall to see if they are committed to civil disobedience next year, with a view to joining in myself.

I WELSH,

Wellington, Hereford

HAVING just read the comments of some of your readers with regard to subsidising the council tax for pensioners, as one myself I would like to put my view forward.

Pensioners are not asking to be subsidised, only for a fair crack of the whip.

My wife and I at the moment pay approximately 12.5% of our income in council tax.

Now as an example, for someone on a salary of say £20,000 paying the same level of tax this would be 7.5% and the higher the salary or lower the tax band the lower the per centage figure should be.

This is unfair and cannot be justified.

I am sure I speak for many pensioners when I say we would be quite happy to pay the same per centage figure as everyone else as really this is the only fair way.

N P JONES,

Eyton, Leominster