Robert Reich — Paul Ryan’s 7 Terrible Ideas

Yesterday, the new Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, summed up his House Republican agenda – vowing to pursue legislation that would frame a stark choice for voters in 2016.





“Our No. 1 goal for the next year is to put together a complete alternative to the left’s agenda,” he said.

Despite the speech’s sweeping oratory and careful stagecraft, Ryan clings to seven dumb ideas that are also cropping up among Republican presidential candidates.
Here they are, and here’s why they’re dumb:

Voodoo economics. Cut taxes, slash social spending, privatize, and penalize the poor and elderly, in short, funnel munnie to the "job creators."

Robert Reich

Paul Ryan’s 7 Terrible Ideas