The lead sentence to Saturday's front-page story by David Herszenhorn, "Leaders In House Seek [1] To Tax Rich For Health Plan [1]."
House Democrats will ask the wealthiest Americans to help pay for overhauling the health care system with a $550 billion income tax increase, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Friday.
Does that mean those wealthy Americans will be free to say, "No thank you?" to the Democrats' kind offer? Um, not likely.