Congress has little appetite for health care taxes
By Stephen Ohlemacher Associated Press Writer / May 18, 2009
Ask lawmakers about raising taxes and the responses range from emphatic opposition to noncommittal statements about "putting everything on the table."
Democrats, who have been fighting the tax-and-spend label for decades, are very much aware of what happened the last time a Democrat won the White House and a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to raise taxes. It was l993, and Republicans won control of Congress the following year.
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But, there is no doubt that Queen Nancy and O’boy consider themselves above the fray.