[Peace-discuss] Voting against Bush tax cuts

[C. G. Estabrook]

From <http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2012/08/01/the-one-republican-who-voted-no-to-extending-bush-tax-cuts/>:

The one Republican who voted no to extending Bush tax cuts
August 1, 2012, 6:43 PM

There’s always one.

In this case, the one is Rep. Timothy Johnson, the only Republican to vote against a bill in the House extending Bush-era tax cuts for everyone by one year. He’s also retiring after six terms.

The Illinois representative has already broken ranks with many in his party when, in March, he said he was no longer bound to follow a pledge to the Americans for Tax Reform group not to raise taxes, according to the publication Roll Call.

“I would never in a million years have considered this as some kind of a locked-in-granite pledge. Frankly, I didn’t even remember it. That shows you how obscure it was to me,” Johnson said to Roll Call.

On the other side of the aisle, 19 Democrats voted to extend the cuts for all taxpayers.

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