Among GOP, Anti-Tax Orthodoxy Runs Deep

Anti-Tax Orthodoxy In GOP Leaves Little Room For Compromise

The Republican Party once had a home for the thinking of Tom Coburn, Mike Crapo and Saxby Chambliss. But that party is long gone.

The three U.S. senators banded together a few months ago in support of higher tax revenue as a means of balancing the federal budget. Even with drastic spending cuts, they concluded, Washington could not vanquish its soaring $14.3 trillion debt without additional income.

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