WASHINGTON, DC – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on today’s White House announcement on “pay-as-you-go” (PAYGO) rules:

        “PAYGO is a thinly-veiled excuse for Democrats to raise taxes in order to bankroll more wasteful government spending.  And who will pay?  The American middle class.  Time after time this year, Democrats have ignored calls for fiscal responsibility and added more than a trillion dollars to our deficit – all of which will be paid by working families and their kids and grandkids.  In the coming weeks, they plan to raise taxes to finance a government takeover of health care, once again putting a bulls-eye on the backs of the American middle class.  We don’t need more rhetoric and gimmicks.  We need action to tackle the tremendous fiscal challenges facing this nation, including reining in the Democrats’ budget plan for trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.”    

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