A TAX COMPLAINT TROUBLES YOU -- AND JUNK DOES TOO
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(MONEY Magazine) – Please forward the address of Dr. Richard Richley, subject of your March story , "Tax-Bracket Terror!" I was so taken by the plight of a person earning $600,000 a year who cannot afford to put his daughter through college that I would like to send him some money. Marc Gamerman Hagerstown, Md.

After being unemployed for two years and recently taking a job that pays half of my pre-layoff salary, I had a hard time keeping the tears (let alone my lunch) down when reading about Dr. Richley. Frank J. Nigro Chesterfield, Mo.

On less than a tenth of orthopedic surgeon Richley's income, we sent our daughter to college for four years. Get real, Doc -- you don't have to buy the university! Eric Ahlfors Toledo

Why don't all the people like us, who are raising two or three children on incomes 10% to 20% of his, ask Congress to rewrite the tax law so that we pick up Dr. Richley's share? John Berni Yonkers, N.Y.

Not only are the physicians in our area taking up a collection for him, but the orthopedic surgeons are considering asking Dr. Richley if he would consider signing on as the public relations director for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Joseph M. Rush, M.D. Spokane

I hope he's a better surgeon than he is a money manager. Name withheld Lancaster, Ohio