tax hikes

As House Democrats move forward with their health care overhaul, 22 Democrats — 21 of them freshmen members — have announced their opposition to the upper-income tax hikes party leaders hope will fund the proposal, The Hill reported today.
That strategy, the Democrats wrote in a July 16 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), would [...]

Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, is well known on Capitol Hill for his harsh criticisms of anything tax-hike related, including the possibility that Democrats would allow expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts on the nation’s wealthiest people. Yet here’s Gregg today telling MSNBC that a new [...]