House Speaker John Boehner, goaded on by Senate Republicans led by Tom Coburn, flirted with eliminating some special breaks such as the ethanol tax credit as a way to add revenue to a debt reduction package.
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France's fishermen, another grumpy lot, came off best from his tax package, aided not by direct cuts in their fuel costs, but by a specialreduction to the heavy social taxes they pay as employers.