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As per your plan, outgoing Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp was surprisingly allowed to put forth his tax rewrite overhaul.
McConnell promptly declared it DOA--and it never saw the light of day on the House floor.
Retiring Camp was term-limited as Chair, which Rep. P. Ryan takes over next year.
My gut feeling on Ryan is he wants to do the right thing--but he bounces back-and-forth because of TEA-pressures.
I'd love to see Ryan forget about being President as long as he's allowed to be Chair of W&M and get the House in order.
Ryan's a protege of Jack Kemp as I'm sure you know and I often call him the most knowledgeable man in DC on the economy.
We haven't had a shutdown so far this year due to the "small" agreement between Ryan and Sen. Murray, crafted in secrecy.
Yet a small cut in COLA to Veteran's pensions was fought off by neos and military-state pols from both parties, costing the Treasury billions.
The decreases in the increases to the budget must be brought under control in all sectors, IMHO; the guts of any grand-bargain .
i've seen Ryan's budget proposals, and i disagree with him on almost everything except for reducing deficits. as for him wanting to do the right thing, yeah, i'd say that's fair. but he's a trickle downer, and at this point on the Laffer curve, i support more demand side measures. believe it or not, i do support supply side corrections in certain scenarios, such as when the tax rates are historically high. that's not the case currently, though.
as for his proposal to dismantle medicare, i'm one hundred percent against that. i support expanding medicare to replace our current inefficient universal health care policy.