The Joint Committee on Taxation released its score today of the tax provisions in last week's Senate-passed supplemental appropriations bill. The cost: $12.5 billion over 10 years, more than offset by $13.8 billion in revenue raisers. The president has promised to veto the bill on account of its war-related provisions, but the tax package is independently significant, since it builds on the Senate's small business tax piece of the minimum wage bill. Wage bills were passed earlier this year in both the House and Senate but have not gone to conference. The Senate supplemental adds $4.2 billion to the $8.3 billion small business tax package in the Senate's original minimum wage bill. The House version of the bill included a $1.3 billion tax package. The Senate tax "supplement" won't exactly facilitate compromise with the House, where, even after the Senate passed the $8.3 billion package, Ways and Means chair Charles Rangel (D-NY) said: "There's nowhere to move. Move where? We've done everything we can do."