Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd in Washington that “To extend those [Bush] tax cuts costs $700 billion over 10 years at a time when we are worried about the economy, when long term, we have to be worried about deficits.” Today, Rep. John Boehner is firing back:

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the tax hike endorsed by President Obama and his economic team will increase taxes on 50 percent of the small business income in America. As a former small business owner myself, I can tell you that’s going to destroy more jobs and make it harder to balance the budget, not easier.