Tag Archives: Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan is a Lying Sack

Responding to a frustrated man who works for the Environmental Protection Agency and has lost many hours of work and pay because of sequestration — Paul Ryan concocted this fantastical story. This was is something the president has done through … Continue reading
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Seniors Have Saved $6 Billion On Drugs. And House Republicans Just Voted to Take it Back.

A press release from the Department of Health and Human Services published this morning states that seniors have saved roughly $6 billion on prescription drugs following the closure of the infamous donut hole. As the third anniversary of the Affordable … Continue reading
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Worse Than You Thought

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities details why Paul Ryan’s plan to block-grant SNAP (food stamps) is even worse than it appears at first glance. The report clarifies that the Ryan budget’s proposed conversion of SNAP to a block … Continue reading
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The Pot of Gold

Artist – Dave Granlund In other news, the two teens charged with rape in Steubenville, Ohio have been found guilty on all charges. Continue reading
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Fingers Crossed

Artist – Adam Zyglis In other news, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has introduced a budget proposal that would pay for eliminating the state’s income and corporate taxes by raising sales taxes by 47 percent. There’s a Romney joke in there … Continue reading
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Medicare in Paul Ryan’s Path to Poverty

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has analyzed Paul Ryan’s latest budget proposal and has found that, with regards to Medicare, it more or less mirrors his previous budgets while retaining cuts initiated by sequestration and the cuts to … Continue reading
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Chart of the Day

Here’s the consequences of the tax cuts included in Paul Ryan’s Path to Poverty 3.0 via Steve Benen. I put together the above chart to show the percentage change in after-tax income, but what I wanted to do was show … Continue reading
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The Path to Poverty 3.0 Has a $5.7 Trillion Hole In It

The Tax Policy Center has crunched the numbers and found that Paul Ryan would need to somehow account for $5.7 trillion in missing revenue to make up the tax cuts present in the third incarnation of the Path to Poverty. … Continue reading
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No More Gold

Artist – Chris Weyant In other news, the Department of Justice has indicted former web producer for the Sacramento-based television station KTXL FOX 40 and current Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys for allegedly helping the hacker group Anonymous … Continue reading
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That’s Not a Knife

Artist – Joe Heller In other news, the story behind the bartender who filmed Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” remarks is interesting. Apparently he brought his camera to take a photo alongside Romney but was so soured by Romney’s words he … Continue reading
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