Ryan's Christmas Carol: Scrooge gets huge tax break---paid for by taking away Tiny Tims health care
In Paul Ryan's A Christmas Carol, Scrooge gets a huge tax break, paid for by taking away Tiny Tims health insurance
Ebenezer Scrooge may be Charles Dickens personification of everything that is wrong with unfettered greed. But to Paul Ryan, Scrooge with his estimated net worth of $1.6 billion is a proud example of those job creators known as small businessmen, which by Ryans definition includes all Americans who file their business as individuals, as people.
This class of taxpayer, New York Magazines Jonathan Chait notes, allegedly includes Donald Trump, a man who seats himself in a gold throne and identifies as a billionaire. Though Trump evidently is not much of a taxpayer.
Ryan doesnt like to point out that 76.1 percent of his proposed tax cuts go to the richest 1 percent in 2017, and that percentage rises to 99.6 percent by 2025, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
But who would? That kind of talk would only make rich people sad, which to Paul Ryan is a crisis almost as severe as Americas recent epidemic of poor people getting health insurance.
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