Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reportedly plans to bring up the President’s Jobs Bill this month and pay for it with a new 5 percent “surtax” on taxpayers making more than a million dollars. According to Politico:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is eyeing a tax on the nation’s highest earners as a way to defray some of the $447 billion price tag for the White House-written jobs package-a move that would shift attention away from its underlying policies and more towards party politics. Sources on and off Capitol Hill said Reid wants to swap out the bill’s current …

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