House GOP set to raise taxes on 99%ers

Chairman Boehner and House leadership have decided against allowing the Senate extension an up or down vote and are playing games instead - they evidently think it is a strategy to kill the taxcut extension while not actually having to vote against it.

Hanging in the balance are 160 million American workers who would see the taxes that fund Social Security rise by 2 percentage points on Jan. 1, doctors who would get hit with a 27.4 percent cut to reimbursement rates for treating Medicare patients, and recipients of welfare and certain unemployment benefits that are scheduled to expire at the end of the year.

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