Top Republicans on Wednesday told President Joe Biden in the Oval Office that they will not support tax increases in a major infrastructure package. Biden, a Democrat, has proposed reversing key portions of the 2017 tax bill the GOP passed, and that then-President Donald Trump signed. “We’re not interested in reopening the 2017 tax bill. We both made that clear to the president. That’s our red line,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters in Washington after the confab. The economy was so strong in early 2020, before being derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, because of the tax cuts in the bill, McConnell asserted. “Raising taxes would be the biggest mistake you could make,” added House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), citing the rise in gas, food, housing, and lumber prices and surging inflation. “That, to us, is a nonstarter.” Biden’s primary tax-related provision in his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan is …