The government should therefore be reaping high taxes from the profits of Russian oil companies.
As for revenues, Mr. Obama forced Republicans to acquiesce in January to higher taxes from wealthy Americans.
Mr. Franks favors eliminating the so-called marriage penalty, which exacts higher taxes from some working couples than they would pay if they were single.
Even so, he emphasized that his support is contingent on Republicans agreeing to higher taxes from the wealthy and new spending, in areas like infrastructure, to create jobs.
Mr. Gerashchenko is a deputy in Parliament representing Rodina, a nationalist bloc that came in a surprising third in December's parliamentary elections in part on a campaign demanding higher taxes from big Russian companies like Yukos.
Higher taxes from 2011 will only do part of the job of paying for the £20bn cash injection and closing the yawning black hole blown in the public finances by the downturn.
"On one hand, it is unfair," said Professor Hines, referring to what he said is a well-established pattern of year-round residents' extracting high taxes from seasonal property owners.
Mr. Carney suggested, as other White House officials have, that Mr. Obama's victory amounted to a mandate for a "balanced" deficit reduction plan that includes higher taxes from the wealthy since the president campaigned on that issue.
While the measure is intended to collect higher taxes from private equity players, it would affect all firms that use partnership accounting, including industries like venture capital and real estate funds.
"Bill de Blasio makes promises over and over that he can't keep," he said, before turning to the camera and delivering an ominous prediction about higher taxes from a de Blasio administration.
Instead it will embody the final compromise offer that he made to Speaker John A. Boehner late last year, before Mr. Boehner abandoned negotiations in opposition to the president's demand for higher taxes from wealthy individuals and some corporations.
