Ryan: Debt crisis lies within spending, not taxes

[drfreedom11]

Let me get this right, our government can not live within its means so its a good idea to give them more money to help them. WAKE UP!! Republican or Democrat or other, Our government works for us. Stop empowering your government to control you. Limit their spending and limit their power. Our government owes us a free economy and safe borders, thats it! I am a small business owner who will be forced to let go of two employees under the new tax laws. Is that the right way?

[LDAJ14]

Bottom line..who is more efficient at deploying capital? Government or private enterprise? If you believe it is the government, move to Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy and tell me how happy you'd be.  The government does not need more tax revenue to waste on useless activity. No government in the history of the modern era has ever been a good deployer of capital, so the less capital you give them, the better off everyone will be. Why do you think we are in this position in the first place?

[theCosmicQueen]

oh so he is saying NO DEDUCTIONS for the rich? meaning it's almost a flat tax? that might mean lots of the rich pay more of their taxes instead of loopholes. If they do it right it could help. BUT, still, higher taxes needed, and cuts on the stupid spending like benefits and subsidies to wealthy and middle income people and farmers. They no longer need it. Cut military too, that's huge. No more throwing money irresponsibly at things either.

[theCosmicQueen]

mr ryan. we need BOTH spending cuts and tax hikes on the rich, who can afford it the most. having to pay an extra 3,000 on 100,000 a year is NOT going to do any actual harm. The point is, we need to get the budget deficit under control. Strategies are needed. Taxes, + cuts , = reduced deficit. Raise taxes but not so drastically.

[theCosmicQueen]

bipartisanship means that the ones with no plan will pretend to agree with the ones who are loud and in our face with their so-called "plan".

[TheTruthHurtsAlot3]

Paul Ryan is the most dangerous person in Washington. His aim is to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. His time in Washington is limited. Wisconsin is on the verge of getting rid of two scumbags, Scott Walker and "Baby Face" Paul Ryan.

[OMGpeopleplease]

@TheTruthHurts Oh look another lazy liberal that cant think for themselves and just repeat what they here on TV. So just who are those evil millionaires well many are people that started out with nothing worked hard and made it. They pay most of the taxes but as usual liberals like to demonize hard work and success. The left and Obama had 21/2 years to get a budget done and they didn't. The left would rather leave it to the Republicans so they can stand back and point fingers at them.

[TheTruthHurtsAlot3]

@OMGpeopleplease

Nice try moron. So you're another political hack who claims to be working class person but you aren't. You are either a paid corporate elitist or someone who sits on his ass all day and vlogs because he's got so much money he doesn't have to work. Again, I repeat, your 2 clowns of Wisconsin, Ryan and Walker, have their days numbered LOLOL

[NewWorldAhead]

@OMGpeopleplease

I like how you call anyone who is pro-WORKING class (notice the capital letters) is called "lazy" by a rich person who inherited his money from mommy and daddy! What a joke! You, sir, are transparent. I thought the country's economic problems were supposed to be a "shared sacrifice" but yet rich people don't have to make sacrifices too? Yes, they pay more taxes imbecile because they have MORE MONEY. Go get a job and stop living off mommy and daddy LOL

[OMGpeopleplease]

To see what a load of crap all this is about raising the debt ceiling watch Obama and Reid in their own words, it all just politics. Don't be so gullible.

Harry Reid in '06: Raising debt limit last thing we should do, will weaken country, hurt economy

Obama Concedes Senate Vote Against

[OMGpeopleplease]

@TheTruthHurtsAlot3 You have not a clue of what your talking about. Obama uses bashing the rich to keep the morons like you happy. Funny the same people he bashes work for him and are the people he turns to for money. Obama is nothing but a union thug and that's how he runs this country.

[countertreason]

Fucking left, you are all nuts. There are at five crazy fucking lefty statements on this page. The two conservative statements are `PAUL RYAN #1`and an argumentative disagreement about some crazy leftist bullshit (essentially, governments can only reduce prices with seized tax money). Youtube is the perfect place to learn about the differences between left and right. Insane conspiracy theories and anger from the left and a hopeless, futile attempt to explain reality to the left from the right.

[kn9ioutom]

SOCAL SECURITY DID NOT CAUSE THIS MESS ! REPUBLICON PRO RICH ANTI LABOR POLICY DID !!!!!

[DillonDee1]

Paul Ryan attends the secret NWO meetings thrown by the Koch Brothers

Agenda - beat down the middle-class & poor, and more for the super-rich & big Corporations.

Yes, Paul Ryan is a scumball!

[mayhemlee]

PAUL RYAN #1

[MsZeitgeist85]

@rororhythm Paul Ryan is a crackpot that has been exposed by almost every economist out there. Look at his Roadmap to serfdom. 

[DillonDee9]

@rororhythm

If you want real tax reform - w/ less foreign aid & our troops home, support Ron Paul

But not Paul Ryan who's a real idiot & who'll take our whole country off a cliff,

[DillonDee9]

@rororhythm

Ryan just doesnt think.

One of his goals is to cut the Cap Gains tax rate next yr to 0%

We haven't had a 0% tax on CG ever but if that's the goal, do it in steps

Otherwise it'll ctash the stock mkt

Ryan just doesnt think.

[quadcatfly]

mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..mo welfare ..

[DillonDee1]

Ryan is a

CORPORATE WHORE!

He doesnt give a damn about the middle-class!

[DillonDee1]

@DillonDee1 -- Heard them arguing on FOX that the union workers shoiuld have some bargaining powers.

The bargaining power they want them to have is -- When the Company comes forward & says they can get ppl in South Carolina to work for $10 per hour, the union workers shoiuld be able to bargain for $7 or $8 or $9..

Of course we know where this is going...

The people of India say...

[QUINTIX256]

@DillonDee1

>the word corporate used in conjunction with a perjorive

how creative; May I ask is it possible to be corporate without being evil? Are corporations, especially multinationals, by definition exploitive?

I think just about all the countries you listed last month are pretty deep in debt; and as for us, the U.S. federal goverment is at the saturation point as to what it can collect from the richest nation on earth.

[DillonDee1]

@QUINTIX256 - I have owned & operated 3 Corporations.

I was merely stating that Ryan is not working for "we the people", that's obvious.

At 2 times in USA history our debt relative tto GDP was greater -- caused by the CW & WW2.

In both cases we were wise enough to raise the taxes on the rich to pay down the debt.

Now, Ryan wants to massively cut the taxes on the super-richl. TOTALLY INSANE!

He'd be taking us over a cliff!

[dinkydkmg]

Go Paul!

[TheChristianRight09]

Paul Ryan for president!!!

[esj8341]

@TheChristianRight09

Ryan is the real deal. He is 2012 first and best conservative candidate who can beat Obama.

[TheChristianRight09]

@esj8341 he's a smart guy..

[GOPkicksbutt]

Thanks to liberal policies America can no longer afford to pay for medicare, social security, unemployment and many other services. We also need to lower the minimum wage to $2/hr in order to compete with China and bring jobs back home. Fiscally responsible conservatives like Paul Ryan and John Boehner know this and are currently

working to end these wasteful handout programs and bring the minimum wage down so that America can be great again. God bless the GOP!

[dddsb]

Like palin...I gag at the sight of this nit-wit.

Look up RUBE in the dictionary and his picture appears.

Killing Medicare and continuing to give millionaires, corporations, and big oil outrageous tax breaks is what will bring him and the current House down. Even the most dummied down voter can understand these simple concepts (oh...and that Medicare was created because there is no such thing as private insurance for the elderly!). Bumpkin!

[myHome109]

I am a Democrat and Thank You, Mr. Paul Ryan.

Thank You, Mr. Paul Ryan, for your courage and staying on the budget topic and not getting dissuaded with off tangent remarks.

Thank You, Mr. Paul Ryan for not answering the hypothetical ridiculous questions.

Thank You, Mr. Paul Ryan for staying on topic and sighting previous Democratic and Republican proposals as historical reference to fixing this budget issue.

Thank You for being strong for us and our children.

[TheKmbt]

Everyone in Washington knows that Paul Ryan has been told he has a million dollar a year lobbying job for the health industry if he gets his health care law passed.

Here's how it works-he lies through his teeth to get it passed-the healthcare insurance industry makes billions more from vouchers while still denying it's customers health care.

Meanwhile this nigger gets a cushy one million dollar a year job as a lobbyist. Way to sell out your own people Ryan!

[esj8341]

@TheKmbt

To the contrary, Ryan's took on a political monster. Cutting spending entitlements is extremely unpopular - just look at what is going on in Greece. Ryan took on what Obama's proposal did not. Shame on the President for not leading on this critical matter. And shame on the Democrats for not passing a budget.

[TheKmbt]

@esj8341 Greece is a different story. They aren't wasting trillions of dollars on a bogus war on terror. Ryan knows we can't afford to cut entitlements without people losing everything they've got. His plan would literally hand billions of dollars to the insurance companies through vouchers driving this country into a deeper debt that we'll never get out of. Can you say CORPORATE WELFARE???

[TheKmbt]

@esj8341 @esj8341 Greece is a different story. They aren't wasting trillions of dollars on a bogus war on terror. Ryan knows we can't afford to cut entitlements without people losing everything they've got. His plan would literally hand billions of dollars to the insurance companies through vouchers driving this country into a deeper debt that we'll never get out of. Can you say CORPORATE WELFARE??? If Ryan had balls he'd take on the real monster-the pentagan!

[1blondflwr]

Taking away Medicare/Medicaid=MURDER!

[glazierEd]

Lets count how many times this dickbag says "LOOK" what a jerkoff.

[dalerob66]

It's simple raise our taxes until no one has money then buy votes. We the people may live like a 3rd world nation, but our sovereign government will live like royalty.

[HemiHead66]

You mean those multi-nationals like Google with a 2.4% tax rate isn't a problem? Well, it isn't a problem for you, but for us, we have to pay for it with out education, retirement, healthcare, food safety, cancer research, the EPA, the science foundation, vouchers for homeless Vets, funding to keep premature babies alive etc. etc. And let not for get about that bloated Defense budget that went from 250+ billion a year before those bogus attacks on 9,11, to 1+ trillion a year today. Govt. welfare

[wiltzuvian]

This is the way I see the problems of our nation. First of all, we are not united and this is causing us to blame one another. The president elected by the populous seems to favor interest groups. He was supposed to have promoted unity and change in this nation instead, he is waisting time defending himself and raising tensions between political groups, ethnic groups, and so on. Inept is the word

[DillonDee1]

Ryan is blackmailing -

Holding the country's credit rating hostage -

Until he can get more for the rich

[xoxak888]

I think we have revenue, spending, union problem. Republicans want to protect the super rich. And, Democrats are not addressing the crisis of social welfare programs such as medicare, medicaid, social security. They all sickens me to gut. Politicians will do anything to better their own party and the well being of the nation is not on their priority list. I think China is doing better in terms of government doing what is necessary for the country.

[xoxak888]

I agree with paul ryan regarding debt crisis but disagree with not taxing the super riches.

[Vetwolf13]

Ryan wants to give MORE tax breaks to the rich so they can build more factories overseas. This is a continuation of the Bush years where 8 million jobs were

outsourced. If this nigger has his way none of us will have jobs, health care, or social security! America deserves better!

[AtlasShruggery]

Teabagger Paul Ryan is a third generation trust fund baby. He voted to raise the debt ceiling seven times while Bush was president.

[QUINTIX256]

@AtlasShruggery Yes, and he will vote to raise it again in all likelyhood.

As for everyone else: try to challenge two assertions:

1: After the evil tax cuts for the rich, federal revenues INCREASED

2: Had the war on terror not happened, (e.g. 9-11 didn't happen) we would have a surplus for now, and we would continue to have a surplus until medicarelessness and socialist insecurity inevitably implode.

[ericzum]

Republicans only care about rich people.

[mark1m]

slap the meager food out of the poor's mouth... giving the rich more money fixes everything.

taking baby food from poor single mothers is how to get on track.... pretty sure we can balance the budget that way.

[poindexterwitkowsky]

America DOES have a REVENUE problem which SHOULD be a matter of NATIONAL SECURITY. Since Reagan, REPUBLICAN CLOWN GOD, the GOP AGENDA has been to REDUCE REVENUE in order to facilitate PRIVATIZATIONor ELIMINATION of programs such as MEDICARE,SOCIAL SECURITY, UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS& others.PRIVATIZATION would be followed by an INCREASE in the costs of these services thus generating HUGE PROFITS at citizens' expense. ===>INSTEAD of generating revenue REPUBLICANS want the NEEDIEST to do with LESS

[mrbomb789]

@poindexterwitkowsky Republicans want the neediest to do with less.. we want the neediest to get off their asses and DO. neediest no longer means incapable of producing, it means LAZY people mooching off the system.. i used to be flat broke, the government wanted to keep me dependent on them via unemployment, "keep the lights on" ( a government program to pay a percentage of my lights) food stamps etc.. I refused it and because im not a lazy bum i changed my circumstances

[mrbomb789]

@poindexterwitkowsky all those things.. medicare, social security, unemployment, are all communist ideas.. the spreading of wealth OF COURSE WE WANT THOSE PROGRAMS ELIMINATED haha wow

[pureaggression]

@poindexterwitkowsky ROFL, youre in a partisan trance!!! yeahh! republicans are only rich, greedy, top earners that would feed on you instead of eating their salmon... Lol you'll never understand whats wrong with our country with your hysteric illogic. Obviously youve never heard of the free lunch myth. Government cannot create a free service, therefore they must economize that service as a business would, minus the incentive of profit and failure. Government only distorts the market

[DillonDee1]

@poindexterwitkowsky

Youre right -- we dont have a spending problem - WE HAVE A REVENUE PROBLEM.

Most other industralized countries have the govt spend about 36% of GDP - we only spend about 32%

But the other countries have revenue close to expenses whereas ours is only 24%

WE HAVE A revenue problem

[QUINTIX256]

@DillonDee1 Is that including or excluding state and local revenues?

[DillonDee1]

@QUINTIX256 --yes, by govt estimates

Now, here's Heritage Society figure - 28%

Now here is HS #s for other industralized countries -- Beliguim 47, Australia 31, Austria 47, Brazil 39, Finland 44, France 46, Germany 41, Sweden 48, Denmark 50, Israel 37

These countries all tax more than the USA & they're spending closer to what they are taxing.

We're spending in the same range they do but have revenue prob

We must kick elderly to street or RAISE REVENUE

[HemiHead66]

@poindexterwitkowsky Yup, Repubs don't want to build, they've got us in a race to the bottom. They can't build, cuz to do that they'd have to stop the crooked trade deals that enrich the few at the expense of the many. They plan on gutting the bottom 80% of the country - which have already been reduced to less than 10% of the wealth - till there's nothing left. They want a world that's run by the corp. fascists, and everyone else are their slaves. Work till you drop.

[DillonDee1]

@poindexterwitkowsky --

America DOES have a REVENUE problem!

Paul Ryan wants to cut the taxes on the super-rich to 1/3rd of what they would've been under Reagan!

This is INSANE when we have a huge deficit!

[FlashMobUSA]

@DillonDee1 Hear the trolling of the lies - Iron lies! What a world of solemn thought their monody complies! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people - They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, trolling, trolling, trolling, In that muffled monotone

[FlashMobUSA]

@poindexterwitkowsky You prefer the communist solution to our problems don't you? No capitalist solutions, just central planning government solutions. Which is the same as admitting that you have no brain at all.

[DillonDee1]

@poindexterwitkowsky - the Tea Party ppl were saying it's all about -- JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!

Yet their proposals to get more money to the rich will not work. We've already seen that under Bush,

If they tax the rich more & get more money to the middle class & poor, It'll be soent -- AND CREATE MORE JOBS!

[GiveDisPeepurEeyah]

@poindexterwitkowsky What an idiotic statement! So Reagan's agenda was to REDUCE revenue? Perhaps then you could explain how revenue increased by 50% during his terms in office? Privatization and the market system leads to a DECREASE in costs, not an increase! This is basic economics. If the government ever offers a good or service at a lower price it is only because your tax dollars are subsidizing it through the back door to begin with...

[kndrice]

@poindexterwitkowsky Wow! You really have no clue. How much more power does the Democratic Party need to really destroy our country? Obama should have had Socialism on an unending path to prosperity! Yet we still have 10% unemployment and no clear path to prosperity. Rather than emotional pandering, why don't you try listening to all ideas rather than political pandering? Nice call Ryan--"Not raising taxes is now the equivalent cutting taxes on the "rich". Funny how laguage can be misconstrued

[wotrwokr]

@lapwiz - take your meds. obvious you hate republicans. no, they didn't create this on their own (he admits they're not innocent), democrats forced fannie mae and freddy mac to lower home loan standards for risky buyers ( frank and dodd). many smart fiscal people (on BOTH sides) say that entitlements are NOT sustainable right now. do YOU understand?... SS, medicare, medicaid if we do nothing... GONE!. please check out on youtube: "EAT THE RICH" (get past your rhetoric and blind rage) peace

[lapwiz]

Your party created the crisis and you're not putting new ideas out there. You're pushing the same agenda that led us to this situation. All you are defending is the same policies you have always have. I propose cutting the military spending in half NOW. I wanna see Mr Paul agree with that now. Name the cuts you want done congressman, and stop hiding behind the Bush with fancy rhetorical mambo jumbo.

[lapwiz]

LIAR, LIAR, LIAR!

[lapwiz]

BE HONEST! IS THAT SIMPLE... BE FUCKING HONEST!

[lapwiz]

Please congressman , get into it point by point. You exist to argue your position POINT BY POINT. That is why you were voted into office. As far as spending goes, you're just about 10 years late. That is why I despise professional politicians, they're all full of shit before and even more after they get into a comfy DC seat. BE FUCKING HONEST FOR A CHANGE! JUST BE HONEST! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FROM A PUBLIC OFFICIAL?

[lapwiz]

Paul Ryan is nearly perfect...in his Imorality!

[TheKmbt]

Ryan and the GOP believe in choices!! That's right-if they have their way senior citizens will have to make lots of choices - one choice they'll have to make will be between health care and food! SUCKERS!!!

[elwaybigfan]

THIS MAN WANTS TO DESTROY MEDICARE SO HE CAN GET KICKBACKS!!!

THIS MAN WANTS TO DESTROY MEDICARE SO HE CAN GET KICKBACKS!!!

THIS MAN WANTS TO DESTROY MEDICARE SO HE CAN GET KICKBACKS!!!

THIS MAN WANTS TO DESTROY MEDICARE SO HE CAN GET KICKBACKS!!!

[wotrwokr]

@elwaybigfan - wow.... THAT will further the national discussion on the budget mess (that BOTH parties have caused). each blaming the other will only get nothing. this can't be swept under and forgotten (as has been done to this point). world markets will eventually replace th US dollar with another foreign currency for world transactions (china= yuan?) and THEN you will know (too late) that your rants did nothing. peace

[flipdabird02]

Congress should enroll himself in Credit Counselling classes. Seriously. No Seriously. That's what happens when a layman maxes his credit card. Worse still if he uses other cards to pay off maxed out cards. And look at these assclown sitting there spinning shit and living in denial. Fcuk that!

[poindexterwitkowsky]

NEVER+VOTE+FOR+A+REPUBLICAN+ AGAIN! The PAUL RYAN BUDGET PLAN will DESTROY MEDICARE for those of us 54 years or younger. IMAGINE being an old man & having to do BATTLE with a PRIVATEinsurance company BECAUSE THE voucher you got is not enough to pay for the coverage you need or you just can't get the coverage you need for your illness! REPUBLICONS slipped this into their budget proposal with NO DISCUSSION OR DEBATE! TELL YOUR STATE REPUBLICON$ THAT YOU WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICON AGAIN!

[dudeeful1]

bipartisanship is code for the dems to give the republicans whatever they want.

[musiccritic10]

@dudeeful1

because republicans are the ones with the good ideas.

[jhmorgan0951]

Many of the comments and what Schieffer says to Mr Ryan are the same old tired lies that liberals believe and push on Americans. We have a SPENDING problem. Period. Giving the government more money has NEVER solved this problem and will NEVER solve it. The American people are DEMANDING the government get it's financial mess in order. obama, his media monkeys like schieffer don't get it, and don't want to get it. 2012 will change this when they are sent home where they belong.

[DoucheDongDick]

Ryan is an expert on deficits, creating them anyway. Voted for the Bush tax cuts,endless wars, Wall St. welfare. Ryan isn't a deficit hawk, he's a hypocrite weasel.

[MrGobsmack]

At birth the iris is usually beautifully balanced between the upper and lower eye lids so that no white shows above or below. When the white shows below it is an appearance common among those who are ill or exhausted. It shows that a person's nervous system is seriously imbalanced. Such a person's mind, body, and spirit are out of harmony. The person's intuition is off; his or her ability to assess people and situations is weak.

lifting ones chin is not the answer.

[worldnewsbbc1]

When Ryan talks about "successful small businesses" he's talking about huge multinational corporations like Bechtel. He calls them a "small business" because it's a Subchapter S pass through entity where there is not a double level of taxation as in a Subchapter C corporation. Income and losses are passed through to the shareholder and they file as individual income tax rather than corporate tax. It's a sham to call that a small business. That's a big business, merely a different tax structure

[worldnewsbbc1]

We have a revenue problem as well as spending problem. In 2000, GDP was 9.821 trillion and individual income tax revenue was 1,004,462 while corporate tax receipts were 207,289. In 2010, GDP was 14,508.2 while individual income tax receipts were 898.549 and corporate tax receipts were 191.437. The economy is 47% larger yet income tax receipts are more than 10% lower.

[worldnewsbbc1]

Real Per Capita GDP grew .65% a year under the Bush tax rates (from 2001 to 2009). Real per capita GDP grew 2.21% a year under the Clinton tax rates. There is no evidence to support his argument that returning to the Clinton rates will slow growth. Sure the theory sounds good but ti's not backed up by evidence.

[worldnewsbbc1]

@USA4July1776 You are a dumb ass. Ryan's plan is a huge subsidy to private health insurance companies. He takes your medicare tax during your entire working life and then gives it back to you so long as you use it to purchase a policy from a for profit health insurance company. You're too unsophisticated to see that this is every bit as much a wealth redistribution program as any food stamp program.

[worldnewsbbc1]

According to the Tax Policy Center which Ryan used for non-partisan analysis of his Roadmap, the Ryan Budget approved by Congress on April 15 will reduce tax revenue by 3 trillion dollars over ten years. They need to close 300 billion a year in loop holes to make this thing revenue neutral. That's a pipe dream since those loop holes are the product of fierce lobbying by special interests. In short, Ryan is a liar when he says his budget is not a tax cut for the rich.

[Heimyankel]

This guy Ryan is as phony as a 3 dollar bill. You can't have it both ways sport...either we're broke and EVERYBODY needs to make a sacrifice or this is just more focus group tested gobbledygook from well financed tax dodgers.

[cano21]

Poor Bob Schieffer. He's so old, he used to babysit Larry King. He doesn't understand the big numbers, poor shriveled up old pruney bastard.

[fastgirlfilms]

Paul Ryan is speaking in circles. No surprise really, but his budget plan is DOA.

[mookins45]

Twelve thousand billion dollars a year for Big Mil. Add in Big Med, Big Prison and Big Bank, you've got our very productive and efficient economy picked clean.

Stop investing in our own people and put that money to subsidizing the elite- 25% top rate!- well, that's just the final nail in the coffin.

[tykuhn123]

Liar, liar pants on fire

[magus4u29]

The president wants a board of 15 people that He appoints to ration and price control medicare for current people on medicare. In otherwords, the president wants medicare rationing on current seniors... 

[tobyrockssohard]

Paul Ryan was just made a fool of.  Is he lying, stupid, or both?

[SoINeedAName48]

Ryan:

"Well, of course we Teapublicans can balance the budget.

You just need to let us kill of the elderly, the disabled, the disadvantaged, the poor ...

POOF!

Budget is balanced!"

FUCK HIM!

[magus4u29]

@SoINeedAName48 that's stupid. He didn't say any of that crap.

[1noen1]

Remember that Republicans still believe is that bullshit "trickle down" model for the economy. They really believe that if you cut taxes you raise revenue and that the more you cut taxes the more revenue you get.

By that logic if we eliminate taxes altogether we should get infinite revenue. These fucking morons are insane.

[tatecole1]

@1noen1 you're an idiot, where are your facts? It is absolute fact that cutting taxes increase revenues to the treasury. Instead of pulling crap out of your butt, why don't investigate a little. Search this site for Obama with Charlie Gibson....

[Connor12710]

@1noen1

There's a point beyond which revenues start to go down. That's a fact. I hope this is just hyperbole and you don't really think that your post is substantive.

[lapwiz]

@1noen1 Isn't that how we got into the shithole we're in now?

8 years of outrageous spending in two wars, burning up the surplus left by the previous administration, without new taxes from Mr. Bush + massive losses from the sub prime lending collapse bailout, Rep Ryan want us to support the same exact BULSHITIDEOLOGY that got us in the hole to begin with?

When will this country learn from short term memory, let alone MID term memory of the caos the same BS policies drives us into? Fuck Ryan!

[lapwiz]

@1noen1 Yes, that worked beautifully for the American people during the Regan, Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. administrations didn't?

The world would be a better place if all libertarian Ayn Rand scum would just jump into the Ocean without a life jacket.

[Egyptdude]

@1noen1 It all depends on where you think money comes from. If you think money comes from the government then you are correct raising taxes makes money for the government. Not for working class, not for anyone that has an idea or product for sale. Think outside of the political rhetoric. How much does the average politician make? and if you answer that you will find that is far beyond the average american wage.(THEY ARE RICH) Name calling is very childish without a clear reason. 

[musiccritic10]

@1noen1

Why do you misconstrue everything?

If you cut taxes on rich and small businesses (small businesses file under rich people and they make up 3/4 of our jobs), they will be willing to hire more and generate more revenue.

Zero taxes doesn't mean infinite revenue... where's YOUR logic in that?

More revenue: yes, of course.

[luvsumtay]

Ryan is a LIAR!!! Keep the tax rate where it's at and cut out the loopholes in the tax code. If you lower it to 25% for the richest and cut loopholes how do you gain anything? One offsets the other.

[2bRealist]

Now listen up people.. Paul Ryan is right!

Why should the rich of today help pay for what OUR KIDS can, for generations to come?

It's not like the current rich had anything to do with our economic melt down. No, it's definitely our kids' fault. So lets not hear any more about this tax the rich nonsense O_o

[PalmBeachPaul]

Ryan just shredded 'ol Bob.

[jimmyboyo1]

@PalmBeachPaul your being sarcastic right? if not then readjust your tinfoil hat LOL Bob shredded ryan in the real world

[HavingfunEnjoylife]

your vision is not the vision we want, we want the vision where we are individuals but we are also in it together. We dont want to be another republican country like Singapore where people work their ass off

[daderone]

debt solution will require taxes and economic recovery will partially lie on not cutting spending to those who depend on it now more than ever. We need to put national interests above ideological or partisan interests. The Republicans are playing games and President Obama is right.

[kehvan]

Paul Ryan for president!

[2bRealist]

@kehvan

PAUL RYAN 2012!! =]

.. because the Mayan calendar was right about the end times =[