MARIANNE Taylor tells us that "baby boomers" have accumulated wealth as a consequence of "a property market that has risen in value to obscene levels" (“The baby boomers will have to share”, The Herald, May 22).

Not a word about the hundreds of thousands who lived in rented private and council housing all their lives and saved for their old age. Not a word about the fact that currently many elderly people in Scotland are obliged to sell their houses and exhaust their savings to pay for their care in private residential and nursing homes.

Not a word about increasing income tax across the generations and occupations, journalists included, at a uniform rate per pound in order to preserve and maintain our public services, an obligation which those she castigates for their greed and selfishness accepted as their moral duty without quibble.

In choosing to single out the elderly for criticism in this way, Ms Taylor perpetuates the dangerous notion that this or that section of society is to blame for the misfortunes of others.

Duncan Macintyre,

2 Fort Matilda Terrace, Greenock.