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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the two major issues that are most important to the American people right now on the Sunday shows. The New York Times reports:
Mr. McConnell said rejecting an extension would amount to tax increases in the middle of a recession and would raise taxes on “750,000 of our most productive small businesses,” whose payrolls support 25 percent of the American work force.
“Small business is the biggest job generator in America,” he said on “Face the Nation” on CBS…He did not rule out a temporary extension of the tax cuts for perhaps two years or so.
“We’re willing to start talking about getting an extension of some kind so that taxes don’t go up on anybody,” Mr. McConnell said.
Addressing the Obama health care plan, he said his preference was to repeal or replace it, but falling short of that he would consider ways of blocking financing for agencies like the Internal Revenue Service that are charged with enforcing the health care law. Mr. McConnell said the Republicans had “a commitment to the American people to keep this awful 2,700-page monstrosity that took over one-sixth of our economy from going into effect.”