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Sen. Orrin Hatch needs to explain how it is that a small payroll tax cut given to everyone for one year isn't helpful to economic or job growth, but a nine-year tax cut for the wealthy is ("Hatch opposes temporary payroll tax cut," Tribune, Dec. 3).
The wealthy have been receiving a tax cut for the past nine years, yet studies show that there is no relationship between tax cuts for the wealthy and job growth.
A good portion of our current debt is because of this tax cut. Why would anyone, other than the wealthy, support the continuation of this tax cut?
Tom Day
Salt Lake City