Hoyer Signals Support for War Tax

(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he is “generally” supportive of a proposal to levy a “war surtax” on Americans to offset the cost of the Afghanistan war, a tax that would be set by the president himself.

Hoyer added that while he would not commit “at this point” to any specific proposal, he believed that the government must “pay for what we do.”

“As you know, I’m for paying for things that we do and I’ve generally been supportive of that proposition,” Hoyer told reporters Tuesday at his weekly press briefing.