There has been some suggestion that the tax-increase proposal is a Boehner ploy: Put the increase on the table and when the president rejects it Boehner can say he made concessions but the president refused them.

FORBES: Connect

But I'll say this, Chip, I think -- again, I want to stress that the effectiveness of Thursday will be predicated upon the willingness of those involved, Democrat and Republican, President and Republican member of Congress, to look at, fairly evaluate the ideas that each bring to that table, and if there's commonality, figure out a way to get that into the proposal.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

It says this proposal is one way of getting the US and Russia back to the negotiating table and getting a process for first bilateral and then multilateral disarmament back on track.

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