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Paul Ryan's Tax Plan - A Bust

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/07/06/3795732/ryan-tax-plan-analysis/

"House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been rolling out his “Better Way” agenda, a slate of proposals meant to offer new ideas from the Republican Party to benefit the country, over a number of weeks. The final plank was a tax plan full of recycled conservative ideas.
And now two analyses show that no matter how one looks at it, the package of tax reforms would overwhelmingly help the wealthy the most and leave little for everyone else."
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CTJ, which doesn’t use a dynamic model, finds the plan would cost $4 trillion over a decade, mostly due to a big reduction in corporate taxes. The Tax Foundation found that on a static basis, with no baked-in assumptions, the plan would cost $2.4 trillion over a decade. That figure is significantly reduced when the group assumes that the package would increase GDP by 9.1 percent, wages by 7.7 percent, and jobs by 1.7 million — coming in at $191 billion. That kind of GDP growth hasn’t been seen in decades; the economy grew by 3 percent, on average, between 1969 and 2007. Even so, the plan still comes at a significant cost even if those things come to pass.

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Here we go again, massive deficits, big tax cuts for the rich and rosy scenario's promising the tax cuts will pay for themselves.

Just like Gov. Brownback's claims. Heads up everybody!
 
[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/BtNbMD96xgY?list=PLAF22812129BFCD50[/YOUTUBE]
 
Unlike the US, the UK might have taken a tiny step toward reversing the policies of austerity and promoting ever increasing income inequality favoring the already rich. The new PM May said that it is possible that they consider reversing these policies.

In my opinion she is on to something, the basis for the positive Brexit vote was the feeling among the citizens of the British equivalent of the American rustbelt that they were being left behind in the economy, which they are. They are being sacrificed on the altar of Thatcherism, just as the poor and middle class, including Trump's most rabid supporters, are being sacrificed to Reaganomics in the US. They know that the system is rigged against them, they just don't know how or why.
 
This whole "dynamic model" thing has managed to make long-term budget forecasting go from 'rather inaccurate' to 'wildly fictional'.
 
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