McCaskill, who is married to real estate developer Joseph Shepard and comes in at No. 18 on the list, said, "The tax code is currently tilted toward people who have a lot of money and complicated business dealings and that has happened because people with power and money have come to Washington and gotten all kinds of goodies in the tax code. So making it flatter and fairer is the thing to do. If that means my husband — we file separately — that he has to pay more in taxes, then he is going to have to live with that."
But the GOP doesn't see tax increases of any kind as a viable option. Rigell said it "is very telling" that Democrats could not pass a millionaires' tax increase even when they controlled both chambers of Congress.
Rep. Bill Cassidy has his blood drawn by Alesha Barbour during a free hepatitis screening in the Rayburn House Office Building hosted by the Congressional Viral Hepatitis Caucus to recognize "National Viral Hepatitis Testing Day."
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