Boehner: Obama Kept Moving Goalposts in Debt Talks

Saturday, July 23, 2011By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner, in a Friday evening news conference at the Capitol, said there are two reasons his debt-limit discussions with President Obama broke down.

“First, they insisted on raising taxes,” Boehner (R-Ohio) said. The Speaker said he and Obama “had an agreement on a revenue number,” which could be reached, not by tax hikes, but by a more “efficient” collection of the taxes that are due to the federal government.

“Let me just say that the White House moved the goalposts,” Boehner said. “There was an agreement, until the President demanded $400 billion more, which was going to be nothing more than a tax increase on the American people. I can tell you Leader Cantor and I were very disappointed in this call for higher revenue.” the rest