Speaker John Boehner. Liar. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
Think Progress finds
this whopper from House Speaker John Boehner, bemoaning goverment and our crumbling national infrastructure.
"Everybody believes we have infrastructure deficiencies and more needs to be spent to repair, replace and in some cases build new infrastructure," Boehner said in a speech. "The problem is nobody wants to pay for it."
Speak for yourself, Boehner. The Senate right now is debating a paid-for infrastructure rebuilding plan. It just so happens that Boehner doesn't like that pay-for, a surtax that would amount to an increase of less than one half of one percent in income taxes on millionaires, or about 0.1 percent of Americans. So, not to put too fine a point on it, that really isn't nobody.
That surtax, by the way, is an extremely popular idea that everybody (if Boehner can use absolutes, so can I) supports.