The Senate Republicans are down one vote if they want to block a Democratic attempt to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for just those making $250,000 or less. Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) told The Hill he’s not interested in extending them for either the middle class or for both the middle class and the rich, the policy his fellow GOPers say they prefer.
“My gut is probably no,” Voinovich told The Hill. “I think I would probably not vote, period, for it.”
Voinovich stressed he isn’t 100 percent sure, but said his take is that broad tax reform is more important and that extending the tax cuts as President Obama wants would only “kick the can down the road.”
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