Paul Ryan would rather you didn’t know what he was up to on taxes

[Miles Archer]

Paul Ryan would rather you didn’t know what he was up to on taxes

Republicans want to solve the problem that the rich aren't rich enough. And the less you know about that, the better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/18/paul-ryan-would-rather-you-didnt-know-what-he-was-up-to-on-taxes/



Here’s an excerpt from a recent interview of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan by CNBC’s John Harwood. The “distributional tables” they’re talking about are those like the one below, showing the impact of one of Ryan’s tax proposals by income group.

HARWOOD: On taxes, your predecessor as Ways and Means chair, Dave Camp, when he came out with a comprehensive tax reform a few years ago, he adopted as a principle that it was going to be distributionally neutral. It wasn’t going to advantage any group over the current system. Is that still a principle that you think is appropriate for the Republican tax agenda?

RYAN: So I do not like the idea of buying into these distributional tables. What you’re talking about is what we call static distribution. It’s a ridiculous notion. What it presumes is life in the economy is some fixed pie, and it’s not going to change. And it’s really up to government to redistribute the slices more equitably. That is not how the world works. That’s now how life works.

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RYAN: I think most people don’t think, “John’s success comes at my expense.” Or, “My success comes at your expense.” People don’t think like that. People want to know the deck is fair. Bernie Sanders talks about that stuff. That’s not who we are.

[saturnsring]

1. "People want to know the deck is fair. That’s not who we are." says it all

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. That's right Paul, in your ayn rand world, only the grotesquely bizarre exist.