Sorry, Ryan plan is so extreme that it also will polarize the electorate. He leaves no room for compromise and his voucher plan is essentially the end of medicare. Going to the private sector for health insurance is the opposite thing I want to do, I do not believe health care is a product, I believe it is a necessity and therefore should be available to all Americans. Ryans plan also does not include increase in revenues and has been scored a bust. We need both increase in revenues (tax the rich) and painful cuts to entitlements. I would be for increasing the age of eligibility for SS and Medicare and tax reform in the way of a national sales tax, gradually phasing out income tax. The national sales tax would affect all equally, the poor simply could no longer afford that which they do not need and the rich would pay for the luxuries they don't need, I think that is fair. I give Ryan credit for showing his Libertarian beliefs, but I do not agree with the ideology
OK, I'll list your lies, misconceptions, and truth-twisting. Maybe I'll live to see the day when at least a few lefties don't use the same stale "shock and scare" Democrat talking points, and actually do some research and make valid arguments based on FACTS.
1. Ryan's Medicare plan is NOT a "voucher" program. In fact, beginning in 2022, current Medicare recipients will be enrolled in the same medical plan that CONGRESS enjoys. Future Medicare recipients will choose from several new plans that offer GUARANTEED coverage options.
2. Health care is already "available" to ALL Americans, and NON-Americans, for that matter. Nobody in this country is denied health care based on their ability to pay. That is simply a LIE. Every state in this country guarantees health care for ALL citizens. A person may not get treated at the Mayo Clinic or Cedars-Sinai, but EVERY state has hospitals that will provide health care to EVERYBODY, regardless of their financial "fitness".
3. You don't increase revenues by raising taxes. You increase revenues by reducing government spending, and getting government off the backs of the private sector businesses so the PRIVATE SECTOR can create more jobs. This simple idea seems to elude the big-government leftists.
4. A national sales tax simply won't work, for the exact reasons you used to SUPPORT a national sales tax. The FAIR TAX PLAN, which is a "hybrid" and much more sensible form of a national sales tax, is the only viable alternative to the present ridiculously cumbersome tax system.
Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from Obama's budget over the next 10 years, reduces the debt as a percentage of the economy, and puts the nation on a path to actually pay off our national debt.
Ryan's budget proposal brings federal spending to below 20% of gross domestic product (GDP), consistent with the postwar average, and reduces deficits by $4.4 trillion.
A study just released by the Heritage Center for Data Analysis projects that Paul Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" will help create nearly one million new private-sector jobs next year, bring the unemployment rate down to 4% by 2015, and result in 2.5 million additional private-sector jobs in the last year of the decade.
It spurs economic growth, with $1.5 trillion in additional real GDP over the decade. According to Heritage's analysis, it would result in $1.1 trillion in higher wages and an average of $1,000 in additional family income each year.
