What Ryan's budget doesn't include is as much an indication of his hatred for the lower- and middle-classes, and his pandering to the nation's Luxury Class and corporate monoliths. Unlike the proposed Democrats' budget, Ryan's budget doesn't include closing significant tax loopholes used mostly by the wealthy. That means they can continue to employ an army of accountants and lawyers to find innumerable ways to avoid taxes. And, like Mitt Romney, the wealthy can still hide money in foreign countries and avoid U.S. taxes. The Democrats' budget raises $1 trillion in revenue by cutting those loopholes.
The Ryan budget also has only minimal and largely cosmetic cuts in military spending. But, in an ironic twist, the Pentagon's highest officials, both civilian and military, have criticized Congress for keeping certain programs the military believe is wasteful or unproductive--but favored for political reasons by members of Congress.
Although Ryan has a degree in economics, his proposed budget, says Senate majority leader Harry Reid, can not be balanced because it "relies on accounting that's creative at best and fraudulent at worst."
The American people broadly rejected Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in 2010. They need to now reject his so-called new budget that proves the Republicans are nothing more than the lackeys of corporate greed at the expense of the rest of us.
[Walter Brasch is an award-winning columnist and author of 17 books. His latest is Fracking Pennsylvania, an in-depth look at the social, environmental, health, and political issues of the controversial method to extract natural gas. The book is available from www.greeleyandstone.com , amazon.com, and brick-and-mortar bookstores.]
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