Monday, March 26, 2012

Cartoon of the Day

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The radical right-wing farce that Rep. Paul "Lyin'" Ryan's budget represents won't be going anywhere. But as Center on Budget and Policy Priorities president Robert Greenstein says,
"The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In essence, this budget is Robin Hood in reverse — on steroids. It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation’s history)."
The income tax cut windfall to the wealthiest Americans -- who have already benefited greatly from Rethuglican tax policies -- from 35% down to 25% would be an enormous loss of revenue, with programs for the middle class being cut to pay for it. The 2012 elections should be a forum for exposing this proposed transfer of wealth to upper income Americans at the expense of the vast majority of the country.

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