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House Speaker John A. Boehner’s "Plan B" on the budget talks, bringing to a vote his proposal to extend expiring tax breaks for all but those Americans who earn more than $1 million a year, ran almost immediately into stiff resistance Tuesday.

Politico is reporting that one of its sources claims John Boehner has placed tax increases for the wealthy on the table. He has been adamant that Republicans would never agree to a tax increase for anyone. President Obama has said that there would be no agreement to end the chance of falling over the “fiscal cliff”, without increasing taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent.

House Republican Leader John Boehner (BAY'-nur) is proposing a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before the recession hit. In a broadcast interview, the Ohio Republican offered an alternative to ...