It’s Not Your Math That I’m Worried About, Paul. It’s Your Arithmetic.
Paul Ryan has announced that while the math for his budget plan is far too complicated for little ole me to understand, the math adds up because he says so.
Why would I not trust him on this? After all, he can do math. I can only do arithmetic.
So everybody pays 20% less taxes but we make up for it by closing loopholes. Okay, that seems like arithmetic and I’ll start adding that up as soon as you tell me which loopholes we’re talking about here.
Paul Ryan has been in Congress since Elvis died and if I have been paying 20% more taxes than I need to all that time, I’m kinda hacked off. Hacked off at Paul Ryan. Why has he been so quiet about this math trick?
I want to hear just three loopholes they would change. And I bet that hiding your money off shore isn’t one of them.
Just guess, though.
Ryan’s complex Budget Plan sounds a lot like Richard Nixon’s 1968 Secret Plan to end the war in Vietnam. Neither of them could tell us the details of their plans, but they both assured us that if we voted for them, they had some really, REALLY good plans for us when they got into office.
1Why indeed, would anyone trust the weasel words* of that weasel? And why would anyone ever elect that weasel to public office?
*weasel words n. [prob. in allusion to the weasel’s habit of sucking out the contents of an egg without destroying the shell] words or remarks that are equivocal or deliberately ambiguous or misleading
2LyinRyan is definitely a weasel and his words, weasly. Hope he loses his House seat along with CantDo and that Democrats retake the HOUSE. We need Nancy running that ship.
3This is Ryan’s math: “As has now been reported in many places, Ryan told Hugh Hewitt in an August interview that he had run a marathon in “under three, high twos.” But then, after an investigation by Runner’s World, Ryan admitted he’d actually run 4:01:25.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/09/paul-ryans-marathon-everyone-else-remembers-his-or-her-time.html
They created a Paul Ryan calculator
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/04/calculate_your_paul_ryan_marathon_time/
4I think that Romney has already given us a clue. He is clearly angry that 47% of Americans don’t pay any federal income tax, so I suspect he will do what he can to “fix” that. After all, why should seniors get a break on social security income–that’s a loophole. And military people in combat zones–what have they done for us lately? The working poor already pay more in SS tax than Mitt does in federal income tax, but clearly they don’t pay enough. Lots and lots and lots of loopholes to close for that 47%.
5who has more loopholes, Ryan or me? not a trick question
6Romney has stated he takes every tax deduction he is entitled to on his income taxes and doesn’t pay a dollar more than required. Yet, he complains about the 47%, who may, or may not, be receiving all of the benefits they are entitled to receive. How many of those 47% would it take for the cost of their government benefits to equal the cost of all the tax reduction benefits Romney receives?
Some of the 47% are couples making around $50,000/yr. with two or three children, who do not pay any income taxes because of the various exemptions and tax credits provided to them. Romney thinks they are moochers, but he isn’t.
7Great math skills…superb, in fact. Do you teach calculus part-time at the local community college, Juanita?
Paul Ryan was seven years old when Elvis died.
8The only loophole those men care about is the mortgage interest deduction, something they’ve wanted to do away with since Reagan was drooling on the Oval Office desk but decided would start a revolution 30 years ago.
Now with the housing market in such serious trouble, they naturally think it’s time to strike.
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