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Paul Ryan’s budget: Social engineering with a side of deficit reduction
Here is Paul Ryan’s path to a balanced budget in three sentences: He cuts deep into spending on health care for the poor and some combination of education, infrastructure, research, public-safety, and...
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Five huge things we still don’t know about Paul Ryan’s budget
(Joshua Roberts — Bloomberg) Paul Ryan’s budget is, in many ways, an extremely detailed document, and it certainly stands in stark contrast to the Senate Democrats, who haven’t released a full budget...
View ArticleWonkTalk: The Ryan budget’s many mysteries
Neil and Ezra are very excited that it is, finally, budget season. But there’s a lot in the Ryan budget that still isn’t spelled out.
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Paul Ryan: Welfare reform can be a model for the rest of the safety net
Paul Ryan’s budget doesn’t just set new spending and revenue levels. He also envisions an overhaul of America’s safety net — using the 1996 welfare reform law as a model. Is this the model? (The...
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Paul Ryan wants more revenue
Buried in Rep. Paul Ryan’s new budget is one surprising detail: He wants to raise more revenue for the government than he did before. Ryan’s budget sets a revenue to GDP target of 19.1 percent by 2023....
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Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the Ryan budget
Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra...
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House Progressives have the best answer to Paul Ryan
The correct counterpart to the unbridled ambition of the Ryan budget isn’t the cautious plan released by the Senate Democrats. It’s the “Back to Work” budget released by the House Progressives. House...
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Paul Ryan doesn’t like to talk about his actual budget cuts
“This has been a really big week,” said Rep. Paul Ryan to an adoring crowd at CPAC. “We got white smoke from the Vatican and a budget from the Senate!” You see what’s coming next, right? “But when you...
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No, Paul Ryan hasn’t proposed a $400,000 tax cut for millionaires
The Tax Policy Center, bless their hearts, ran the numbers on Rep. Paul Ryan’s tax reform goals. The headline is that he’ll need to find $5.7 trillion deductions, exclusions, and other tax breaks to...
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Ryan’s tax reforms cost more than all his spending cuts combined
Here’s an amazing fact: Ryan’s tax reform plan costs more than all his spending cuts combined. So how will he pay for his much, much lower rates? Well, he doesn’t say. In fact, he doesn’t even begin to...
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