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Republicans Have No Intention of Cutting Your Taxes

March 10, 2010 at 3:59 PM Leave a comment

The top House GOP budget guy, Paul Ryan (R-WI), has produced a “budget roadmap” that makes my skin crawl and causes me to pray that the Republicans never, ever control the legislative branches of our government again because they are insane:

As you would expect from a conservative plan, compared to Barack Obama’s tax ideas Ryan would raise less government revenue. This is why he needs sharp cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, and all other government programs combined with privatization of Medicare so that a larger share of your diminished benefit goes to for-profit insurance companies. The interesting thing, however, is that when the Center for Tax Justice (PDF) ran the numbers, they discovered that this isn’t the kind of tax cut that makes your taxes lower. On the contrary. Most Americans will pay higher taxes under Ryan’s plan than under Obama’s. Only the very richest will pay less.

“Only the very richest will pay less?”  So the very richest would get another GOP tax cut?

So give Ryan credit. It’s quite difficult to raise taxes on 90 percent of Americans while reducing overall tax revenue, but he’s shown enormous ingenuity in getting the job done. Remember that this is the top House GOP budget guy. If John Boehner becomes Speaker after the midterms, Ryan will be writing budgets for the new majority, presumably animated by the same moral principles that led him to this idea.

When you hear the GOP talk about reducing the deficit, this is the kind of thing they’re talking about.  If anything like this ever passes, you can kiss this country good-bye.  We’ll all be living in the streets.

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