Thursday, April 21, 2011

WATCH: Paul Ryan Booed at a Town Hall meeting


Pretty Eyes tried to use his charm to defend tax cuts for the rich at a town hall meeting in Milton, Wi. See how that went

Text from Think Progress
CONSTITUENT: The middle class is disappearing right now. During this time of prosperity, the top 1 percent was taking about 10 percent of the total annual income, but yet today we are fighting to not let the tax breaks for the wealthy expire? And we’re fighting to not raise the Social Security cap from $87,000? I think we’re wrong.


RYAN: A couple things. I don’t disagree with the premise of what you’re saying. The question is what’s the best way to do this. Is it to redistribute… (Crosstalk)


CONSTITUENT: You have to lower spending. But it’s a matter of there’s nothing wrong with taxing the top because it does not trickle down.


RYAN: We do tax the top. (Audience boos). Let’s remember, most of our jobs come from successful small businesses. Two-thirds of our jobs do. You got to remember, businesses pay taxes individually. So when you raise their tax rates to 44.8 percent, which is what the president is proposing, I would just fundamentally disagree. That is going to hurt job creation.

It's not working, Paul

1 comment:

Bob said...

As if we needed proof that GOP goosesteppers do not listen to We The People, Ryan gives us video evidence.

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