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McKeon Says He’ll Support Tax Hikes To Avoid Further Military Spending Cuts | Whether Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) is exploiting 9/11 imagery or falsely claiming that programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are the “main drivers” of the U.S. deficit, the House Armed Services Committee chairman is doing whatever it takes to prevent cuts to the nation’s bloated military spending budgets. Now, the Hill reports today that McKeon is willing to give up one of the GOP’s core ideological principles, saying he’d support tax increases in order to preserve the military industrial complex. “The comment was striking,” writes the Hill, “because McKeon, a self-described Ronald Reagan conservative, said he has never voted for a tax hike.”