thinkprogress.org - 3/30/2009
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Last week, the House GOP presented its alternative budget proposal. Members of the media, including conservative commentators , widely panned the document for being scant on details and appearing more as “campaign-style talking points .” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), ranking member of the ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 4/1/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
A BUDGET PERFECT FOR APRIL FOOLS' DAY.... Rumor
has it that Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the...
ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, is one of the House GOP Caucus' sharper members. He has a reputation for knowing what...
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A budget perfect for April Fools' Day
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 4/1/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Paul Ryan reaches deep into the conservative movement’s
storehouse of ideas on America’s most pressing policy programs...
and comes up with an innovative agenda of tax cuts mostly tilted toward the wealthy and corporations paired with a ...
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Paul Ryan’s Break With the Past: Tax Cuts for the Rich!
business.theatlantic.com - 4/1/2009
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business.theatlantic.com —
This graph supposedly compares "Democratic Budgets" and the
Republican Alternative based on spending as a percentage of...
GDP between 1980 and 2080. As you can see, Democratic spending is, as they say, off the charts after about 2060. Now I think it's ...
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Paul Ryan's Crazy Budget Graph - The Atlantic Business ...
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Rep. Ryan Clueless About The Deficit Effect Of His Radical Tax Cuts
Wonk Room —
... average, under the House GOP plan than they would under the President’s plan.
- The income tax proposals in the House GOP plan…would cost over $300 billion more than the Obama income tax cuts in 2011 alone.
That’s $300 billion more annually, without factoring in the cost of cutting the corporate tax and eliminating the capitals gains tax, both of which Ryan also proposed. As Lee Fang pointed out on ThinkProgress, Ryan conceded that his budget would increase the deficit “a lot.” It might ...
Republicans: The Stupid Party
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Think Progress» Rep. Paul Ryan Concedes GOP Alternative Budget Would Increase The Deficit ‘A Lot’: Last week, the House GOP presented its alternative budget proposal. Members of the media, including conservative commentators, widely panned the document for being scant on details and appearing more as “campaign-style talking points.” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), ranking member of the House Budget Committee, has said he will release yet another budget proposal, but this time with more specifics. Though Ryan has been most critical of the deficit impact of ...
Party of No Numbers
Political Animal —
... in the House after the negative reaction to the non-budget, and after Rep. Paul Ryan conceded that, with actual numbers, the non-budget would in all likelihood increase the deficit. These guys really have no idea what they're talking about, do they?— ...
About that alternative GOP budget...
Political Animal —
... . The second point isn't looking any better . Last week, the House GOP presented its alternative budget proposal. Members of the media, including conservative commentators, widely panned the document for being scant on details and appearing more as "campaign-style talking points." Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), ranking member of the House Budget Committee, has said he will release yet another budget proposal, but this time with more specifics. Though Ryan has been most critical of the deficit impact of Obama's budget, he has been unable to assess the deficit impact of his own budget. ...
Ryan: Spending Flat for Decades Under Our Plan
TPM Election Central —
... This level of detail is remarkable, given that Ryan himself seems to have been unable to say how big near term deficits would be under his plan just two days ago. (Incidentally, Ryan's budget, which we've obtained ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/25/2009 —
Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, has thoughtfully gone beyond mere whining about the Obama administration’s budget for fellow Obama critics to consider embracing. What’s in it? Well, in ...
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huffingtonpost.com 4/2/2009 — As part of the alternative budget rollout on Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan published in a Wall Street Journal op-ed a chart plotting out the spending projections between the "Democratic Budgets" and "Republican Alternative."
The ominous graph gives the ...
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