Paul Ryan on the need to stop the looming tax hikes

[dkkght46]

Now days the only thing ensured is death, taxes and taxes at death. Vote Democrate we know better what to do with your money than you do!

[joekiddone]

Must read at The American Spectator:

The New Big Picture by Peter Ferrara

[timuwe]

Boy there are a lot of expectations for this incoming congress. I hope the GOP can deliver.

[mcap52]

How about we attack THE REAL ISSUE??? Is our current taxing system LEGAL???? When someone asks THAT question,they will have my utmost respect.

[IMAutubeuzr]

GO FLAT TAX! If you are going to work on tax reform, a flat tax of 3% for feds, 12% for state and 2-3% for local government is a great start. No dedications (no coercive power of government to get the People to do what it wants us to do!), lose about 95% of the IRS, eliminate the need for everyone to have complicated tax forms for federal taxes at the very least.

[qltwabd]

@IMAutubeuzr I like your idea. It makes a lot of sense. We need to simplify taxes so everyone can understand how they are collected and used.

[IMAutubeuzr]

But, Rep Ryan: The POTUS is not responsible for authoring bills so any agreement with him/her is irrelevant. He shouldn't have ANY dealings with Congress until the bill comes to his desk (IMO) but given recent history, that's not very likely.

Rep Ryan is da MAN! Just don't think any 'agreement' with POTUS means anything in the proper path of creating a law.

[XGAGAlover]

Paul Ryan makes sense, at least he proposes *real* solutions. One thing Paul does that most politicians do not do is answer the questions posed to him. 

[MikeBrew328]

Paul Ryan is a phony, as much as I want to like him

[wwwint2]

@MikeBrew328 Phony? The man has the courage to take on entitlement reform - that alone is worthy of respect.

[john51880]

The estate tax is suspended now and should never come back! It is pure robbery! You work hard to leave some thing to your children and democrats what to help them selfs to as much as possible. Outrageous! Redistribution of wealth should be unconstitutional! It should be none of the government business how much money you make or who you leave it to!

[Reckless3057]

lol "provide a tax break" provide.... provide.... as if.... as if it's not their money. Oh man the democrats are doomed. notice that he never actually addresses the intergenerational rights to transfer property and how the estate tax influences business or any of the issues that Paul brings up.

"Oh noes! Rhetoric about class warfare! that makes me look like what i am. a socialist tard."

[Rosebud1937]

This guy is the only adult in Washington. Wouldn't he and Chris Christie make a fabulous ticket for 2012?

[Reckless3057]

@Rosebud1937 God i hope Chris Christie's "compassionate conservative" doesn't run. I love Ryan for his rhetoric but Christie is pseudo-conservative.

[qwertygert]

Sometimes it seems as if Rep. Ryan is the only person in Washington who "gets it". I am thankful that he still has the passion to fight.

[treemetree]

@qwertygert Ron Paul and Jimmy Duncan get it. Rep. Ryan talks like he "gets it" but really doesn't differ from the norm in DC.

[AmericanPatriot612]

@treemetree Right. Ryan's budget plan would pay back the entire national debt and make the entitlements solvent, while the "norm in DC" already has us on the fast track to a debt crisis. Those two things are indistinguishable...

[treemetree]

@AmericanPatriot612 The problem is that which few wish to say: the Federal government has no Constitutional business in entitlements of any sort. Period.

[AmericanPatriot612]

@treemetree I agree. But it's not a pragmatic position to take, and it'd simply be impossible to eliminate them when they have such high approval ratings with the people. So let's just settle for avoiding a debt crisis and a total financial collapse by listening to how to make the programs solvent, if we must have them, for now.

[BlacksAreBeautiful]

The thing I don't get is, if at it's root, the estate tax is an unfair double tax, why is it right to apply it to ANYONE? 

[marinegrunt0341]

Rep. Van Holen needs to ask himself the same question, "are the democrats willing to hold this bill up just for the purpose of increasing the estate tax on just a few thousand people?"

[creativebuzz]

Paul Ryan is simply Brilliant! He never has to rely on "talking Points". He has answers. Answers that make sense. Economic common sense. In any debate I have seen him in, he never talks down to others, even the clueless Chris Mathews. I hope Congress and the nations will follow his lead. America needs a leader like Paul Ryan right now.

[TheMatteigenauer]

Paul Ryan rocks! Him and Ron Paul seem to be the only members who actually use their brains!

[thesoothsayers]

END THE FED. END CORPORATE FASCISM. Get the Federal Government OUT OF OUR LIVES. If you want to inner cities, take them, but leave the rest of us alone. We don't want your welfare, your health care or any thing else you offer. We don't want your food bills, your energy bills or your terrorist bills. That applies to BUSH, OBAMA and CLINTONS.

[kmg501]

This first wave of Tea party Republicans is going to need another wave in 2012 to really make a difference. This nation has been driven to the far left for 100 years. People don't even know what a "center" is anymore. As it stands I never want to work on the books again. I don't want any of my energy contributing to this insane upside down society that was formerly known as America.

Get the government out of my life and wallet and then I'll get back on board and not before.