When it comes to taxing health insurance benefits, President Barack Obama hasn't said yes, and may never. But he and his top aides won't quite say no, either, to an idea he attacked sharply in his campaign for the White House.
Instead, they are in full straddle, a well-known Washington maneuver accompanied by a vocabulary designed to obscure.
"That was not in the president's plan. It was not in our budget," the administration's budget director, Peter Orszag, said Tuesday after the possibility of taxing benefits was raised _ not for the first time _ by Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
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