'Standing Firm on Medicare'

L.A. Times Archives

Feb. 5, 1989 12 AM PT

I cannot believe that many of the people complaining about the surtax understand the benefits and the financing. As for the surcharge in 1989, a couple paying about $1,500 in income tax will just pay the cost of their benefits. Everyone below this level is paying less than the cost of their benefits.

This income-related surcharge is just about as easy and as equitable as Congress and the Reagan Administration could have produced.

JAMES C. RITCHEY

Mission Viejo