Veteran Republican senator denounces Boehner's tax offer

Reuters ^ | Tue Dec 4, 2012 10:00am EST | (Reporting By Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Bill Trott)

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A Republican senator underscored division within his party ranks on Tuesday by opposing a plan by the top Republican to increase tax revenues as part of a possible deal to avert the “fiscal cliff.”

Senator Jim DeMint, a favorite of the anti-tax Tea Party movement, said the proposal by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner for $800 billion in increased tax revenues would “destroy jobs and allow Washington politicians” to swell, not reduce, the deficit. …

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get that crying baby socialist gone!!!

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This cliff stalemate is the RATs plan to once and for all DESTROY the GOP. It is pretty much that simple - they are not negotiating and certainly not in good faith. It is their way or the highway - RIP GOP, you walked right into this one without your spine.