Ryan's Christmas Carol: Scrooge gets huge tax break---paid for by taking away Tiny Tims health care

[kpete]

In Paul Ryan's A Christmas Carol, Scrooge gets a huge tax break, paid for by taking away Tiny Tim’s health insurance


Ebenezer Scrooge may be Charles Dickens’ personification of everything that is wrong with unfettered greed. But to Paul Ryan, Scrooge — with his estimated net worth of $1.6 billion — is a proud example of those job creators known as small businessmen, which by Ryan’s definition includes all Americans who “file their business as individuals, as people.”


This class of taxpayer, New York Magazine‘s Jonathan Chait notes, allegedly includes Donald Trump, a man who seats himself in a gold throne and identifies as a billionaire. Though Trump evidently is not much of a taxpayer.

Ryan doesn’t like to point out that 76.1 percent of his proposed tax cuts go to the richest 1 percent in 2017, and that percentage rises to 99.6 percent by 2025, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.


But who would? That kind of talk would only make rich people sad, which to Paul Ryan is a crisis almost as severe as America’s recent epidemic of poor people getting health insurance.


the rest:
http://www.nationalmemo.com/paul-ryan-teach-scrooge-lesson/

[dhill926]

1. I like this kind of framing...

Easily understood by folks.