Rosalie Brosilow, whose letter to the editor appeared in your newspaper last week ("Why Not Tax Greece's Rich?" May 5), does not seem familiar with the situation in Greece. The U.K., with a population of over 60 million people, has 500,000 civil servants. Greece, with a population of 11 million people, also has 500,000 civil servants. For Greece to have a comparable number of civil servants to the U.K., it would have to sack 400,000 civil servants. Clearly, that will never happen. It is not taxation that is the problem in Greece, it is corruption.
D.P. Marchessini
London
