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The extrreme part of the Ryan budget is the tax increases on the middle class which don't even reduce the deficit because of the TAX CUTS on the wealthy and corporations. No to mention the Voucher system that eliminates the Medicare garantee.
1. Tax alterations are revenue neutral across brackets. You fail here because you focus on nominal rates for upper income earners or corporations, but effective rates for middle and lower income earners - comparing apples to oranges. the pro-growth savings here aren't in the form of decreased collection, but of decreased complexity costs.
2. One of the options in Medicare Reform is the exact same fee for service model that we currently have. Certainly it doesn't eliminate the "medicare guarantee", and certainly it doesn't do so off of current law, which does.
3. And it is indeed quite possible that, even if it were to pass, the Ryan Plan would not forestall the coming fiscal crises - it is more than merely a possibility that it is too little, too late. but that is not a function of extremism, but rather of it's need to remain within the bounds of the "politically possible". what a ridiculous phrase. as though the notion that something is "politically impossible" will make a nonce's worth of difference once you have no alternative.
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