The GOP's Risky AMT Gambit

摘要

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS SIGNED on to congressional Republicans' strategy to play a high-stakes game of political chicken over the alternative minimum tax.After years of reining in the AMT with stopgap measures,some GOP leaders now plan to leave the unpopular levy unchecked,threatening as many as 16 million more high-end taxpayers with a stiffer tax tab for 2006.