Isnβt it just like the GOP to run out here an issue the trashiest tax bill in the history of tax bills, a tax bill that is literally cutting taxes for the top 1% and when asked how they are going to stop driving up the national deficitβremember the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of tightening up the deficitβwell, now they plan to bleed the poor dry.
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Although President Trump campaigned on a promise never to cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, well, that like most of the presidentβs campaign promises was bullshit.
On Wednesday, during an interview with the Ross Kaminskyβs talk radio show, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI.) noted that of course there will be cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security because where else were they going to make up for these massive tax cuts to the rich?
βI think the president is understanding choice and competition works everywhere, especially in Medicare,β Ryan said, The Hill reports. βWeβre going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit.β
Ryan added that health-care entitlements such as Medicare and Medicaid βare the big drivers of debt,β Ryan said, βso we spend more time on the health-care entitlements, because thatβs really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking.β
Whenever anyone says fiscally speaking I get real skeptical. This is fiscally speaking, of course. I guess that Ryan doesnβt believe that the latest tax reform plan issued by Republicans without any Democratic assistance, which is estimated to drive some $1 trillion to the deficit is a problem. Nope, itβs that pesky healthcare to some of the nationβs poorest and sick that we need to cut back on.
And, because Ryan, like many of his GOP brethren believes that welfare is a handout to able bodied folks, he would like to change the welfare system because, why not?
βWe have a welfare system thatβs trapping people in poverty and effectively paying people not to work,β Ryan said Wednesday, The Hill reports. βWeβve got to work on that.β
Read more at The Hill.
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