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Paul Krugman has some colorful words for Paul Ryan's budget coming out of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Aside from the wildly plutocratic character of the thing, giving massive tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans while slashing programs that serve the neediest, Ryan also promises to pay for it and close the deficit by closing as-yet-undisclosed loopholes. A true swindle.
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So what are we to make of this proposal? Mr. Gleckman calls it a “mystery meat budget,” but he’s being unfair to mystery meat. The truth is that the filler modern food manufacturers add to their products may be disgusting — think pink slime — but it nonetheless has nutritional value. Mr. Ryan’s empty promises don’t. You should think of those promises, instead, as a kind of throwback to the 19th century, when unregulated corporations bulked out their bread with plaster of paris and flavored their beer with sulfuric acid.
Come to think of it, that’s precisely the policy era Mr. Ryan and his colleagues are trying to bring back.
-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times
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Of course, this has been going on ever since Reagan showed it could be done. These Republican lapdogs just keep getting bolder and bolder, grabbing for more and more, evidently holding everyone in contempt who does not have a few million dollars to throw around.
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So what are we to make of this proposal? Mr. Gleckman calls it a “mystery meat budget,” but he’s being unfair to mystery meat. The truth is that the filler modern food manufacturers add to their products may be disgusting — think pink slime — but it nonetheless has nutritional value. Mr. Ryan’s empty promises don’t. You should think of those promises, instead, as a kind of throwback to the 19th century, when unregulated corporations bulked out their bread with plaster of paris and flavored their beer with sulfuric acid.
Come to think of it, that’s precisely the policy era Mr. Ryan and his colleagues are trying to bring back.
-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times
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Of course, this has been going on ever since Reagan showed it could be done. These Republican lapdogs just keep getting bolder and bolder, grabbing for more and more, evidently holding everyone in contempt who does not have a few million dollars to throw around.
