A fair solution?

Allan Sutherland gives a different take on the Institute for Public Policy Research suggestion that we should sell RBS and give £10,000 to every 25-year-old (Letters, 7 April). His suggestion was to use it to reduce house prices.

I then remembered, back in the 1990s, an article about the huge amounts of money in most Scottish councils’ emergency funds; some dreadful people argued that we should divide this money among those who paid their council tax, or whatever it was called then.

This suggestion was branded as non-inclusive, and the claim was made that it should be paid to every one regardless of whether they’d paid council tax or not.

So I had a brainwave – why not give it pro rata to those who paid all their income tax, National Insurance contributions etc from the day they started work until now. That surely is the fairest solution.

I have a strange feeling that this obvious solution will be attacked, mocked and vilified. Oh well, you can’t please everybody

IAN J MURRAY Broomhall Loan, Edinburgh