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Boehner: Obama wrong to push 'class warfare'

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House Speaker John Boehner said he and President Obama have a "very good relationship," but he also criticized what Boehner incite so-called "class struggle" in the over spending, taxes and job creation Austrian political debate Bama.

In an interview broadcast on ABC's "This Week" program Sunday, Boehner defended Republicans and Democrats oppose Obama's efforts to increase the deficit reduction and job creation as part of measures to tax wealthy Americans.

"Come on, the top 1% pay 38% of U.S. income tax," Boehner, R - Ohio, said Friday about the recording continued Republican stance against tax increases proposed interview. "How much, you also want them to pay?"
Obama has produced a defense as a narrative, Boehner said, is to pit the rich part of another social class tax cuts Republican campaign theme.

"We will not engage in class struggle," Boehner said, adding that: "The president is clearly trying to do it, it is wrong."

Republicans generally want to cut government spending and reduce the size of government debt, and therefore opposed to increasing taxes or adding new taxes.

However, Boehner and other Republicans favor a modification to increase the tax law, lower interest rates, but expanding the number of taxpayers the possibility of government revenue.

This step will only accept "As long as our colleagues on the other side to cut spending severely," Boehner said in the ABC interview.

Obama talks this year with a possible comprehensive deficit reduction agreement to Bona said the additional revenue up to $ 800 billion as part of the package.

Talks broke down on the reduction of differences in tax issues and rights, Bona said in an interview, Obama discussed the specific trade-offs and then there is now achieved.

"I think it is very difficult to squat with the back," he said. When asked how much additional revenue the Republicans can embrace, Boehner replied: "This is a $ 64 million problem no one knows." Congress created the Joint Special Committee to work out a deal to reduce the deficit facing the November 23 deadline, there is no breakthrough in sight.

Boehner does not agree with the 12-member panel - evenly between Republicans and Senate Democrats split from the House of Representatives - an impasse, but he stressed that it is working to resolve the problem is - too hard, and he and Obama to resolve.

"No one (is) more disappointed, we can not reach an agreement, the President and I, than I am," Boehner said. According to him, and the president, "This is a bit frosty here in the past few weeks, but we've got a very good relationship." House Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio) said Thursday that President Obama is inciting class struggle "every day" because he pushed Congress to pass his program of work.

"We will not engage in class struggle," Boehner said, ABC's "This Week with Christian Amanpour." "[The] President, where do every day, and I frankly think this is unfortunate, because we job is to help all Americans, rather than pit one after another set of Americans. " Obama, Boehner said: "obviously trying to do, and this is wrong." Mr Obama has sent back the Democratic Party has called Boehner and other Republican leaders adopted the president's $ 447 billion legislative work, including for infrastructure projects, teachers and first-responder funds, but will also raise taxes on the richest Americans - the curse of the conservative move.

Senate Republicans unite to block the bill last month, House Republican leaders refused to participate in the House is not up. Boehner pushed back against the notion that the Republicans, tax increases by the opposition, but to protect the rich.

"This is very unfair," Boehner said, this description. He said: "The top 1% wage tax in the United States 38% of income, and that they pay you?"

The spokesman also rejected Republican efforts to cut its deficit reduction agreed with the United States would undermine the idea of ​​this year the poor disproportionately.

"No one here in this Congress - Democrat or Republican - to put a safety net for Americans to do what the hole," Boehner said. "There are Americans who are poor, and I think this is the rest of us to ensure that their food in their stomach, they have the responsibility of the roof over their heads."

With the clock ticking down on the budget supercommittee the November 23 deadline, Boehner said he fully sealed agreement investment. "I will do my best to ensure supercommittee is successful," he said. Group on deficit reduction, the two sides trading purposes or advice, but on income and the thorny issue of tax reform far.

When asked how many Republicans will support the new revenue, Bona on Sunday refused to speculate."This is a $ 64 million question," Boehner said. "Nobody knows." House Speaker John Boehner said in recent weeks things have become a little "cold" President Barack Obama, but they still want to work together to prepare for the Congress to fight the federal debt. "The president and I have a very good relationship," Boehner said, Agricultural Bank of China this week with Christian Amanpour. "You know, it has been a bit frosty here the last few weeks, but we've got a very good relationship."

Bona floor than in the special Congress' plan to make do with the federal debt approaching $ 15 trillion has been suggested supercommittee''is less than a month.

Congress - and the White House - is expected to reduce debt through the bill before the end of the year, or face of the next summer hit Obama and Republican prospects for automatic processing of budget cuts.

"I told the president, you know, I was the most direct, and transparent in this town, I will not mislead him," Boehner told Amanpour. "My word is my bond. Democrats and Republicans here in Washington understand that."

Boehner said:

    "So we have a pretty good relationship does not mean we always agree, but the American people expect - even if we have very different ideas - the American people want us to seek common ground, and then take action on it. So far, we have been able to do this. We have already taken some steps in the right direction here in the past two months. We have many more steps to take together. " In addition, last summer, Boehner and Obama trying to figure out in the federal debt will include tax increases and budget cuts "great deal", they also play a round of golf now famous, but they can not strike deals.

"If it was easy, the President and I can solve it," Boehner said. "If it was easy, in the past two decades, Congress will have solved it, it is difficult."

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