Pelosi says she proposed a millionaire tax this year to ‘smoke out’ Republicans

From The Daily Caller:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi explained on Thursday why she proposed a tax increase on millionaires this year but won’t support it now as part of the House Republican plan to avoid the fiscal cliff.

“We must ask the very wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. Democrats believe that tax cuts for those earning over a million dollars a year should expire and that we should use the resulting revenues to pay down the deficit,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, wrote in a May 23, 2012 letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner.

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