Boehner Warns Obama on Tax Increase

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Boehner Warns Obama on Tax Increase

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

House Speaker John A. Boehner will issue a warning Tuesday to President Obama a day before the president is set to deliver a major speech on the nation’s deficit: Raising taxes is “unacceptable and a nonstarter.”

Mr. Boehner plans to issue the warning in a statement Tuesday afternoon, according to a copy of the statement The Caucus obtained. In it, Mr. Boehner says Republicans are “open to hearing” proposals from Mr. Obama about dealing with Medicare and other entitlements that reduce the nation’s long-term debt.

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“We don’t have deficits because Americans are taxed too little, we have deficits because Washington spends too much,” Mr. Boehner says in the statement. “And, at a time when the American people face skyrocketing prices at the pump, energy tax hikes are a particularly bad idea.”

Mr. Boehner’s statement arrives just hours after Mr. Obama invited the Speaker and other Congressional leaders to a pre-speech discussion at the White House Wednesday. Mr. Obama’s top aides have said the president plans to engage the topic of entitlement reform directly but also will suggest that part of the solution should include an end to the George Bush era tax cuts.

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Uh oh, the "skilled legislator" who recently made a "fool" of President Obama has spoken. Game over!!!