The Ryan Plan: A Declaration of War on the Poor

Friday, April 15th, 2011

I’ve been fasting for 18 days in solidarity with the hunger fast for a moral budget because something incredible is happening in our country, and we haven’t seen anything like it in 30 years. When introduced on February 11, H.R. 1, the FY2011 spending bill approved by the House, proposed $100 billion in cuts to this year’s budget. Two-thirds of H.R.1’s cuts will directly affect working and poor people.

Then, on April 5, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced a 2012 budget that is much, much, much worse than H.R.1. Ryan’s budget would put all the burden for balancing the budget on poor people, while at the same time cutting the tax rate for people in the top income bracket from 35 percent to 25 percent.

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