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ealth Planning Strategist Tax Topics 12/20/13 2013-12 Budgets, tax reform and “extenders” As the year winds down, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-W1) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) have hammered out a budget deal that forestalls — for two years — another government

winds down, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-W1) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty

rson Managing Director, Senior Wealth Planning Strategist Tax Topics 12/20/13 2013-12 Budgets, tax reform and “extenders” As the year winds down, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-W1) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) have hammered out a budget deal that forestalls — for two years —

dismantling almost all of his accomplishments, as well as to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Last year the tenants of this same Ryan plan was celebrated by the GOP as the "Pathway to Prosperity" campaign — cutting spending by $4.6 trillion through 2023, largely by rolling back Pres

the federal government fiscally sustainable as it is to make it smaller. As Eugene Robinson pointed out this week in an op-ed in The Washing Post — Paul Ryan's make-believe budget — that last year, "the Ryan Budget" was a big Republican selling point with Ryan proposing turning Medicare into a voucher progr

n and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically. Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Su

ndustry is back, and American manufacturers are adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. And every step of the way, Republicans in Congress, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney have opposed him and done everything that they could to slow the jobs recovery because they thought it would help them politically.

hat prolong the recovery -- and it took to the mobilization of War Machine during WWII before the country fully recovered. I only wish that Romney, Ryan and their Conservative neocons supporters felt the same way about war, because after eleven years it appears they would still like to extend the war

e to wait longer to order evacuations in the event of a hurricane. In an interview, Christopher Van Hollen Jr. of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, describing the Ryan budget "is a shell game designed to hide the damage to the countiy." Van Hollen is frustrated that the damage to which he allu

/Bannonism as quickly as possible. Priebus, already complaining about “political neophytes and the boss’s relatives,” subcontracted his agenda out to Ryan and the Hill. And Kushner, on one of the steepest learning curves in the history of politics (not that everyone in the White House wasn’t on a steep

work. But who said what to Trump and when often did. If, at Bannon’s prodding, Rebekah Mercer called him, that had an effect. Priebus could count on Paul Ryan’s clout with him. If Kushner set up Murdoch to call, that HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019975 registered. At the same time, each successive call mostly canceled

nd a figure who had merged a conservative fiscal wonkishness—he had been the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and, as well, chairman of the House Budget Committee—with an old-fashioned idea of unassailable Republican rectitude, Ryan was the official last, best hope of the Republican Party. (Bannon, typically, h