Baucus Proves Democrat Foil Bowing to Montana on Revenues
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Just one Senate Democrat opposed the party’s majority on the estate tax, a medical-device tax, a possible carbon tax, online sales taxes and the revenue-raising budget plan. He’s the senator in charge of tax policy: Max Baucus of Montana.
Baucus, who is up for re-election next year in a state that President Barack Obama lost by 13 percentage points in 2012, has been confounding fellow Democrats with a willingness to cooperate with Republicans on taxes. Baucus’s separation from his party’s push to raise $975 billion in taxes will make it tougher for Democrats to generate that much revenue.