Ryan's Shrewd Budget Payday

[Pharaoh]

Exclusive: The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget. Daniel Stone reports.
June 17, 2011 12:09 AM EDT

When House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled the GOP blueprint for cutting government spending, he asked Americans to make sacrifices on everything from Medicare to education, while preserving lucrative tax subsidies for the booming oil, mining and energy industries.

It turns out a constituency within his own personal investments stood to benefit from those tax breaks, Newsweek and The Daily Beast have learned.

The financial disclosure report Ryan filed with Congress last month and made public this week shows he and his wife, Janna, own stakes in four family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to the very energy companies that benefit from the tax subsidies in Ryan's budget plan.





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[Enrique]

1. say it ain't so

this story represents the end of my innocence.

[Stuart G]

3. Me too...

[Zoeisright]

2. That should be illegal.

[liberal N proud]

4. Cutting out the middle man!

What is this world coming to? Congress used to just make money off bribes and kickbacks. Ryan is just cutting out the middle man, going straight to making money for his own business.