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Scalise said he plans to submit a bill Wednesday night that would add a line to the 1040 tax form allowing people who feel they do not pay enough income tax to opt-in to paying more.

“I wanted to make sure that there was an option out there on the IRS tax form for those out there who wanted to send more of their money into Washington to help pay down the deficit,” Scalise said. “It’s an idea that solves a few problems and ensures that taxes won’t be raised on America’s job creators.”

Scalise said his bill will allow Buffett to “put his money where his mouth is” and “send in a check” to the U.S. Treasury.

Grover Norquist, the founder of the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, sent a letter to Scalise praising him for the bill, but said when similar “tax me more” lines were tried at the state level, the “limousine liberal set” did not “put their money where their mouth is.”

“Mr. Buffett should be able to voluntarily pay extra income taxes if he feels the need to – without imposing broad, job-killing tax hikes on our nation’s small employers,” the statement said. “Taxpayers are calling Mr. Buffett’s bluff with this legislation.  It’s his move.”

While Scalise may be the first congressman to propose an alternative Buffett Rule bill, he is not the first to suggest that Buffett voluntarily send in a check rather than have the president ignite “class warfare” by implementing a mandatory tax hike.

“If he’s feeling guilty about it, I think he should send in a check … but we don’t want to stagnate this economy by raising taxes,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in September.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Obama’s Buffett Rule would “simply divide this country more.”

“It will attack job creators, divide people and it doesn’t grow the economy,” Ryan said on “Fox News Sunday” shortly after the president announced his rule. “Class warfare may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics.”

Mom has teen busted for not cleaning room

John Nickerson, Staff Writer

09:42 p.m., Monday, October 3, 2011

Luis Perez, 18, of 52 Congress St., was held in lieu of $5,000 bond. Perez's 54-year-old mother, in whose house Perez lives, called police to report her son was swearing at her during a family altercation about Luis Perez's lack of cleanliness.

According to Sgt. Simon Blanc, the mother told police she leaves her home clean and orderly before working 12 hours a day as a nanny. The home is a mess when she returns, and Luis Perez invites over people whom she doesn't know, she told police.

On Sunday night, she complained to her son after she arrived to find a messy home and one of his friends visiting, she told police. She said her son became confrontational and swore at her, Blanc said. When she said she would call police, Perez swore and said he did not care, Blanc said.

Police, escorted to his room, discovered Perez under blankets without pants, talking on a cellphone.

When asked to go downstairs and talk to his mother, Perez said he was not coming out and that police were invading his privacy. He said police were breaking the law by coming into his room and he wouldn't put his pants on, Blanc said.

He said he was in his "drawers" and "he has rights," Blanc said.

While police tried to determine the problem between son and mother, Perez continued to be uncooperative and hostile toward his mother, Blanc said.

Perez's mother explained to police that she could no longer live this way because she was afraid of her son and said she wanted him out of the house.

Luis Perez yelled more and was placed under arrest.

Perez threatened to speak to his lawyer and told police what they were doing was not right. As he was being escorted out of the house in handcuffs, however he asked police for a second chance and to be released, Blanc said.