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Sen. Orrin Hatch doesn't like people on the dole.
From 1976 his Senate wages went from $44,000 per year to $174,000 per year.
Plus a Cadillac, medical insurance and retirement.
Minimum wage in Utah has gone from $4,784 per year to $15,080 per year in the same time period.
No medical or retirement or free government so-called fact-finding trips on taxpayer money.
We haven't forgotten the taxpayer flights to Texas so you could ride to Utah in Air Force One at taxpayer expense!
You are against helping the poor but you have no problem subsidizing big oil, pharma or other campaign donors.
You have no problem with big business coming into Utah making millions, while paying their employees a nonlivable wage.
Of course this requires the taxpayers to subsidize medical and housing while all the millions leave the state to make rich people richer.
What do you think is costing the taxpayers more? Feeding and helping poor people or enriching the rich?
Sen. Hatch, you have been on the dole for too long.
Retire, quit. You have your share of the taxpayers' money.
And whoever takes your seat should sign a contract that limits them to two terms only.
Senator, you will be remembered as a good example why term limits are needed.
Craig Erickson
Tooele