McMahon: Tax Cuts For Everybody Or Nobody

  
Sides with McConnell's approach to preserving the Bush-era tax cuts






  

    

      
By Mark Pazniokas - Connecticut Mirror

      
Published: Sep 15, 2010

    

    

                   
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Linda McMahon at New Haven Press Conference
  Photo:Paul Bass, New Haven Independent

            
          
    

          

      

	 



	NEW HAVEN -- U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon said Tuesday she would back Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's all-or-nothing approach to preserving the Bush-era tax cuts.



	"I would push forward to maintain for everyone the tax law that's in place now," said McMahon, the Republican nominee.



	The position leaves McMahon at odds with Democrat Richard Blumenthal and vulnerable to the Democrats' claim that Republicans are willing to hold middle-class tax relief hostage to save the richest Americans from a scheduled tax increase.



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	If Linda McMahon were a U.S. senator right now, she’d join with her fellow Republican senators—and against leading Republican U.S. representatives—on the showdown du jour over tax cuts.



	At least that’s what Linda McMahon the candidate for U.S. Senate says.



	She said it Tuesday afternoon during a press conference at the Mobil station off I-95 on New Haven’s Long Wharf.



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	I don’t think a tax increase is what we ought to be doing at this time...It's anti-growth


        
-Republican Linda McMahon

      

          
      

                              

          

            
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