Paul Ryan Wants to Raise Your Taxes

Posted on 07/27/2010 at 6:16 pm by Bob Cesca

Yesterday on Hardball, Congressman Paul Ryan — you know, one of the smart Republicans — was outlining for Chris Matthews the specific areas the Republicans would like to cut in order to pay for the Bush tax cuts and to reduce the deficit.

One of the ideas he mentioned was to discontinue the heretofore unspent Recovery Act money. In other words, ARRA was set up to disperse money and benefits throughout a specific schedule. Anything not spent right now — money earmarked for spending in the rest of 2010 and 2011 — would be rescinded from the program.

RYAN: I would rescind the unspent stimulus funds, I would rescind all the TARP funds they aren’t spending, I would do a federal hiring freeze and pay freeze for the rest of the year, and I would go back and cut discretionary spending back to ‘08 levels and freeze that spending going forward.

Wow. Paul Ryan is smart! He’s the smart and reasonable Republican!

Actually, he’s not.

According to Recovery.gov, $55 billion of the unspent ARRA money comes in the form of tax benefits for middle class and working families. (Incidentally, Ryan’s district has received over $302 million in ARRA funds, not including tax benefits. ARRA has created over 10,000 jobs in Wisconsin.)

Paul Ryan wants to take away your tax cuts. Which, in Republican parlance, is the equivalent of a tax hike — in the middle of a slow-growth recovery.

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  • http://www.dcplod.wordpress.com DCPlod

    It shows how low the GOP’s sunk that you can just basically spit out random phrases associated with policymaking and that makes you one of the smart ones.

  • http://critterscrap.blogspot.com Jerry Critter

    Ryan’s comments should come as a surprise to no one. We all know that republicans are only interested in tax cuts for the wealthy. The middle class and working families don’t deserve them.

  • http://twitter.com/nicole473 nicole473

    What Jerry said. Paul Ryan is just another fucking corporate tool.

  • ec

    Ryan is not alone. This is what Scott Brown wanted to cut to pay for the unemployment extension.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    Paul Ryan is a nimrod. He’s a Congressman for a district in my state, and he’s never held a REAL job in his life, either, just like most of his conservative friends in Washington.His Roadmap is nothing more than a copy of what George W. Bush wanted to do with SS and Medicare, while spoon-feeding the rich every advantage he can.But I will say this for Ryan; he’ll talk to you, he’ll respond to letters from people outside of his district (and even sometimes with more than just a form letter). That he is misguided is a shame. Maybe you all should pray for him…huh?

  • ec

    Nimrod. I haven’t heard that word since high school. Kudos, PPP.

  • Allonfla

    Paul Ryan is Newt Gingrich Jr. minus the muslim hate speech. He’s an “ideas” guy, but they are all just bad ideas.

  • MrBrink

    The Ryan Budget’s Radical Priorities:

    Provides Largest Tax Cuts in History for Wealthy, Raises Middle Class Taxes, Ends Guaranteed Medicare, Privatizes Social Security, Erodes Health Care

    Debunk Paul Ryan and you cut the legs out from underneath the Republicans, but good.

  • Desert Crone

    His sound bite needs to be in a Dem campaign ad.

  • Desert Crone

    Sounds like Ryan gave Dems a great sound bite for campaign ad.

  • roxsteady

    Edward Wolfgang Munster! What are you doing in government? Herman! Grandpa! Marilyn! Come quick! Eddie’s in Washington DC trying to raise our taxes! I say we feed him to spot!

  • Desert Crone

    Oops. Didn’t think first comment posted. Guess a damn good idea has to be posted twice.

  • eljefejeff

    I never EVER watch Chris Matthews but I happened to catch this. First off, I can’t stand Matthews. Ryan is full of hot air and Matthews didn’t even let him prove that. He continually cut him off and didn’t let Ryan show how dumb his plan is, which he said repeatedly would pay off the debt.By the way, according to his website, according to the CBO, Ryan’s plan would pay off the debt by 2060. He kind of left that tidbit out of the Matthews interview, and of course, Matthews didn’t even challenge him on that.