New Senior Romney Advisor Called Ryan Entitlement Reform Plans "Irresponsible…A Bad Idea"
Peter Wehner, a former aide to President George W. Bush announced he was joining the Romney campaign as a senior adviser today in an email obtained by BuzzFeed. Complicating Wehner's new role could be his past critique of entitlement reform proposals from Romney's running mate Paul Ryan.
In 2005 when the Bush Administration attempted to tackle reforming social security, Ryan and former New Hampshire Senator John Sununu proposed a social security privatization plan known as Ryan-Sununu that Ryan described as the "most humane way to save Social Security." The plan would allow workers to invest into private accounts about half of their payroll taxes. The plan claimed it would have no cuts in benefits and no tax increases.
The White House, at the urging of Karl Rove, for whom Wehner worked as an aide, decided to keep its distance from Ryan's plan and go with a proposal they thought was more politically viable with smaller private accounts.
In a leaked White House memo taking issues with Ryan's plan, Wehner blasted the plan as irresponsible for not providing a significant enough overhaul to fix the program, but merely provided "personal retirement accounts" alone.
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So Ryan's plan didnt go far enough?!
