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Grassley Goes After Proposed Medicare Payroll Tax Increase

By | 11.24.09 | 11:53 am

It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed o.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics.

Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, More…