	rostenkowski reluctant to back tax hike house ways and means committee chairman dan rostenkowski said he would be reluctant to back the tax increase if it did not have president reagan s support he told a national press club luncheon there would be a number of tax proposals that could be debated if reagan sought a tax increase to help balance the budget however he said he would prefer to leave the tax rates enacted in last year s tax reform bill unchanged there have been calls in congress to hold the rates at the level rather than allow them to fall next year reagan proposed billion dlrs in revenue as part of his budget proposal but it did not include general tax increases on  issues rostenkowski said he did not expect the major  bill this year would single out any u s industry for special protection to go after individual items in a  bill is suicide he said this apparently ruled out congressional approval of another textile  bill to limit quotas on textile imports as was proposed again this year reuter 
