Comments about ‘Letters: Chaffetz hypocritical’

Is there an opportunity for him to appear again on FOX news for any reason? To promote his personal agenda of getting more power and make headlines?

Either when (if ever) Hatch retires, Chaffetz will be a Senate candidate....that is of course if he decides he can't wait that long and runs against Lee in four years.

President Obama met with the same church leader regarding immigration, and has dug in his heals. Where are the outcries against him?

If a liberal does what a conservative does, the liberal is good and the conservative is bad, obstructionist, warmonger, debtmonger, racist, and evil. (The Liberal/Democrat Creed)

And this liberal dares call Chaffetz hypocritical!

Badgerbadger
Murray, UT
President Obama met with the same church leader regarding immigration, and has dug in his heals. Where are the outcries against him?

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Could you give me the points where Pres. Obama dug his heels in? What exactly are you referring to?

Thanks.

Badger -- you apparently are not aware that the Church and Obama are in fundamental agreement on immigration.

One more conservative spouting off without facts to back his comments.

Obama is open to compromise with Republicans on fiscal policy--combining cuts and entitlement changes with more revenue. And, the Budget Control Act of 2011 included reduced spending. Republicans on the other hand, are saying no more revenue. So which side isn't willing to compromise? Get real. Republicans wear the "my way or the highway" badge proudly.

To me, the author did't understand what Chaffetz said. I don't understand not compromising as being hypocrital. We have too much compromise in politics as it is.

Re: "the Budget Control Act of 2011 included reduced spending. Republicans on the other hand, are saying no more revenue. So which side isn't willing to compromise?"

I'm sure you just forgot that the denial of Bush-era tax cuts to small businesses was the Obama regime's demand to raise revenue. And,the Obama regime refused to accept other tax increases offered by Republicans, since they've never learned to take "yes" for an answer.

So, yeah -- which side isn't willing to compromise?

It's so entertaining to watch Chaffetz dance around the Church on this issue. Goes back to his football training, I guess.

Irony Guy
Bountiful, Utah
It's so entertaining to watch Chaffetz dance around the Church on this issue. Goes back to his football training, I guess.

12:37 p.m. March 20, 2013

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I was kind of thinking the same thing.

BTW - Wasn't he place kicker?
you know...we are getting anywhere,
so why you give me the ball,
I'll fall back,
and kick it as hard as I can to the opposing team,
as see where it lands?

Plays politics the exact same way.

"We have too much compromise in politics as it is."

Compromise is what politics is. No compromise is called a dictatorship.

The whole system we have today was built on the premise that no one side should rule, and that through compromise you achieve balance. To get to what DougS promotes we would need to tear up the constitution and install some other form of authoritaian government.

Not sure that is what most of us want... so in this case, no compromise. I think most of Americans still want the plurality to have a voice, not just the power brokers.

It is pretty niave to believe one's own views would be the winner in described government...coming from a minority position.

@ grocer- go against Lee and he will be mopped up! This guy voted for the Patriot act for crying out loud. Cafetz needs to go the way of the telegraph. Sad that we have only one decent rep. From Utah!

Procuro: Just to double check you are calling people making over $400,000 per year (the amount where the tax increase brokered with the Republican House starts), "small businesses"?? Get real.

Re: "Just to double check you are calling people making over $400,000 per year . . . "small businesses"?

Yeah -- last time I checked, a person whose business only makes him $400,000 a year would fit squarely into that category.

I know liberals are committed to attacking the "rich," but it's scary when they arbitrarily define those terms to insist a $400,000-a-year business -- like most constructions crews, mom-pop stores, startups in their first 5 years, etc., likely with no more than 10 employees -- is not considered a small business!

It's looking like liberals are getting so desperate to criminalize success that the only small businesses currently immune to their attacks would be pedi-cabs, shoe-shine boxes, and apple carts.

And, even those guys should watch out.

In liberal Bizarro World, small business is OK until it becomes an enterprise that might actually support a family and few employees.

Then it becomes fair game to "progressive" predation.

Mr. Chaffetz continues to be a disappointment to me and many of us who know him.

"There is no legal requirement of any correspondence between the size of the business and the form of business organization." In a June 2008 document, Joint Committee on Taxation noted, "While many small businesses are organized as a sole proprietorship, a partnership, or an S corporation, not all businesses organized in those forms are small and not all businesses organized as C corporations are large."

A 2008 JCT study reports that 61% of net income from partnerships and S corporations is earned by firms with gross receipts over $10 million and fully 43% by firms with gross receipts in excess of $50 million. Those data suggest that the majority of affected income may not come from what we generally think of as a small business.

The Tax Policy Center states:
"If the objective is to help small businesses, continuing the Bush tax cuts on high-income taxpayers isn't the way to go -- it would miss more than 98 percent of small-business owners and would primarily help people who don't make most of their money off those businesses."