The GOP and Ryan's budget plan wants to slash taxes again in the midst of a recession for "stimulatory measures". These taxes will favor the top 1% disproportionately as our "best job creators" to help them make more jobs. This is demonstrably not happening from the Bush tax cuts. The recent jobs report (discussed in detail by Meteor Blades) does an excellent job discussing the current problem. Now that we have a decade of data to look at the Bush tax cuts, it is obvious that the stimulatory effort of the Bush tax cuts, to the extent there was any, went to a bubble economy that popped. During this bubble, the percentage of total income going to the top 1% increased dramatically, while other wages stagnated. The top 1% are investing in parts of the economy that have cut jobs for efficiency and have made a lot of money doing so. The cost of the Ryan Plan, along with the cost of the Bush Tax Cuts, is alternative programs and deficit reduction.
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