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Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) named three Republicans to the fiscal super committee that was created by the debt ceiling deal. All three have taken the Americans for Tax Reform anti-tax pledge and support a cockamamie constitutional balanced budget amendment. What I can pretty certainly say to the American people, the chances of any kind of tax increase passing with this, with the appointees that John Boehner and I are going to put on there, are pretty low, McConnell has said.
But McConnell has not always been so virulently anti-tax. In fact, in a 1990 campaign ad, McConnell said that everyone should pay their fair share, including the rich, prompting the Associated Press to say that he sounded like a populist Democrat:
MORE: FLASHBACK: In 1990 Campaign Ad, McConnell Said ‘I Think Everyone Should Pay Their Fair Share, Including The Rich’ | ThinkProgress
But McConnell has not always been so virulently anti-tax. In fact, in a 1990 campaign ad, McConnell said that everyone should pay their fair share, including the rich, prompting the Associated Press to say that he sounded like a populist Democrat:
MORE: FLASHBACK: In 1990 Campaign Ad, McConnell Said ‘I Think Everyone Should Pay Their Fair Share, Including The Rich’ | ThinkProgress