Boehner Seeks to Sell Tax Boost to Anti-Tax Republicans
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House Speaker John Boehner is trying to sell a tax increase for top earners to fellow Republicans whose opposition to tax increases for anyone is a central part of their identity and pitch to voters.
Under Boehner’s “plan B,” tax rates would rise on income of more than $1 million a year, which President Barack Obama’s administration and other Democrats immediately rejected as inadequate. House Rules Committee staffers were working tonight to prepare a text of the measure to set up a Dec. 20 vote.