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Paul Ryan Booed At Town Hall For Defending Tax Breaks For The Wealthy

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Post by Admin Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:39 am

Earlier this week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) embarked on a series of town halls across his southern Wisconsin congressional district. Ryan has gained notoriety in recent weeks as the architect of the Republican budget which extends tax breaks for the wealthy and phases out Medicare. House Republicans voted 235-4 in favor of the plan.

During a town hall meeting in Milton, a constituent who described himself as a “lifelong conservative” asked Ryan about the effects of growing income inequality in our nation. The constituent noted that huge income disparities contributed to the Great Depression and the Great Recession, and thus wanted to know why the congressman was “fighting to not let the tax breaks for the wealthy expire.”

Ryan argued against “redistribut[ing]” in this manner. After the constituent noted that “there’s nothing wrong with taxing the top because it does not trickle down,” Ryan argued that “we do tax the top.” This response earned a chorus of boos from constituents...

"Ryan’s constituent is correct to point out that income inequality is accelerating in the United States and tax cuts aimed at the wealthy are exacerbating the problem. Between 1980 and 2005, “more than 80 percent of total increase in Americans’ income went to the top 1 percent.” Indeed, as Ezra Klein points out, the extension of the Bush tax cuts plays a major role in our projected federal deficit. Ryan, who advocates permanently extending the Bush tax cuts, uses the resulting federal deficit as justification for phasing out Medicare and slashing the social safety net.

Still, Ryan’s outraged constituents are representative of the country as a whole. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 72 percent of Americans wanted Congress to raise taxes on wealthy Americans making more than $250,000 per year."



It's worth noting how the Congressman immediately conflates increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans with some sort of unjust treatment of 'small businessmen'. I'm glad to see that more Americans are becoming aware of this conservative straw man.
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Post by Leon Mcnichol Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:40 am

It always amazes me how can they say such things with a straight face. Nothing more than scam artists, that's what they are.
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Post by hermeticist Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:01 am

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It's worth noting how the Congressman immediately conflates increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans with some sort of unjust treatment of 'small businessmen'. I'm glad to see that more Americans are becoming aware of this conservative straw man.

I didn't much care for the format: Ryan with the authority of a schoolteacher, controlling the discussion, and the audience like schoolchildren, having to put their hands up to ask questions. I would have preferred eggs and tomatoes to be hurled, Ryan being called a lying scumbag, and getting caught in a scuffle and having his nose bloodied. The "awareness" is not being channeled into civic disobedience, into acts of collective non-compliance. Awareness by itself is a pretty passive thing. Sheep might be aware they're going to the abattoir the next day -- but if they do nothing about it, their butchers couldn't care less.

Real democracy is exercised through riots and demonstrations; not through passive voting for indistinguishable candidates or asking polite questions of professional liars.
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Post by hermeticist Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:10 am

Leon Mcnichol wrote:It always amazes me how can they say such things with a straight face. Nothing more than scam artists, that's what they are.

It's their job. They're not selected by the ruling class for their intelligence or their probity (both of which qualities they almost invariably lack). They're paid to push a certain line. With a straight face. Sometimes they're so stupid they actually believe it. Politicians serve as intermediaries between the actual rulers and the vast masses of the dispossessed, who want to feel that they "voted" these bums into office, and that hence they're accountable to them. This sham of democracy is a meaningless scrap thrown by the rulers to the masses. The velvet glove that disguises the iron hand of oligarchic control. If true representatives of the people really did get elected and go against ruling-class interests, this would precipitate a crisis of the state, and the iron hand of police power and military control would quickly be asserted. That Western democracy is a sham is why Emma Goldman contended a century back that "if voting could make a difference they would have abolished the ballot boxes a long time ago."

True power is seized by violence; not by raising one's hand so one can respectfully ask a polite question to a mendacious piece of scum who's a cross between a pimp and a prostitute.
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Post by Admin Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:42 pm

Ah, the latest (GOP) town hall confrontation, featuring Rep. Sean Duffy and his constituents:



It appears Paul Ryan's draconian plan and its subsequent embrace by the Republican Party has jeopardized the GOP's standing amongst its very base. Laughing
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