Senate expected to retain an Obamacare tax in search for votes
The change was among a short list of tweaks that Toomey described to reporters following a lunch Tuesday in which
Toomey has pushed for repealing all of the taxes created to pay for the Affordable Care Act, but said Tuesday that a 3.8 percent levy on investment income for those who make more than
"I don't think it's a deal-breaker for me, but it's definitely a negative because it's going to contribute to slower economic growth," Toomey said. "That's part of the reason that we've had such feeble growth since the severe recession is because of all of these taxes and all of the regulatory policies."
Leaving the tax in place would be "discouraging," Toomey said: "But it looks as though I have lost that argument."
Toomey also said
It's unclear how much those changes have swayed reluctant Republican senators, though
Casey told reporters during a weekly Democratic press conference that he recently visited nine
"I saw and heard in those counties a very high degree of concern about the bill," Casey said, referring to the
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