Because if anyone has his finger on the pulse of the Tea Party, it’s Harry Reid.
(Yahoo! News) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has proposed a 5 percent tax increase on millionaires to pay for President Obama’s jobs bill, arguing that even the tea party supports his proposal.
“More than 50 percent of the tea party and about 75 percent of other people in America agree that we need to do something about this so we’re going to propose to pay for this important jobs legislation by asking people who make more than a million dollars a year to pay 5 percent more to fund job creation to ensure this country’s economic success,” Reid said at the Capitol on Wednesday. “Independents, Democrats and Republicans and even the tea party agree it’s time for millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes.”
The problem, Reid said, is that none of the Republicans who support tax increases on millionaires are in the Senate.