Former Gov. Linda Lingle says she would not support a so-called millionaire’s tax, according to the liberal website Think Progress. Lingle is running for the U.S. Senate seat that Sen. Daniel Akaka is vacating when he retires in 2012.

Interviewed at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Lingle told Think Progress that she sees such a tax as a “tax on small business, because almost every business in Hawaii will report their income as personal income.”

Congress has been at odds over plans to pay for stimulus-like proposals by imposing higher taxes on people who earn more than $1 million per year. GOP leaders have voted down such measures, and call the strategy “class warfare.”

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