Paul Ryan would rather you didn’t know what he was up to on taxes
Paul Ryan would rather you didnt 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.
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Heres an excerpt from a recent interview of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan by CNBCs John Harwood. The distributional tables theyre talking about are those like the one below, showing the impact of one of Ryans 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 wasnt 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 youre talking about is what we call static distribution. Its a ridiculous notion. What it presumes is life in the economy is some fixed pie, and its not going to change. And its really up to government to redistribute the slices more equitably. That is not how the world works. Thats now how life works.
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RYAN: I think most people dont think, Johns success comes at my expense. Or, My success comes at your expense. People dont think like that. People want to know the deck is fair. Bernie Sanders talks about that stuff. Thats not who we are.