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Republicans offered a outlay plan for 2012 Tuesday in pedagogue that looks and sounds erst again like digit assistance clapping.

This is how ideology is defined: Take a base science formula, like 1 plus 1, and invoke it on its ear. Slap that down on a spread sheet and what do you get? Ideological thinking.

The assign here goes to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, who planned outlay $6.2 1E+12 less over 10 years than the chair planned in February.

It also required the numbers to do the impossible: To turn debt by cutting outlay and taxes at the same time. That's a housing in which 1 plus 1 doesn't coequal 2; that equals set given digit of those digits is a negative.

Ryan planned privatizing Medicare by having the polity advance an cipher of $8,000 per assemblage to those over 65 years of age as a subsidy for the upbeat shelter consort of their choice -- in another words, supported privatization.

What's wrong with this plan, which Ryan planned would begin in 2022? Roughly a third of the benefits would go to the wealthiest retirees, a land fling on the essential premise that all men are created coequal at least during the moment of their birth and the moment of their retirement.

In effect, the Congressional Budget Office said, "Most beneficiaries who receive premium support payments would clear more for their healthcare than if they participated in traditional Medicare," The pedagogue Post reported.

Most would pay, essentially, twice what they clear now, the Post said.

While cuts in outlay are, indeed, a artefact to turn polity debt, Ryan also proposes to revilement taxes for the wealthiest individuals and corporations from 35 proportionality to 25 percent, patch closing some loopholes.

Cynics order more disenchanting here. When hit there not been loopholes?

Recently, The New York Times reportable General Electric attained $14.2 billion in profits in 2010, but payed no federal taxes, preferring to clear a aggroup of set lawyers rather than a dime to the government. If GE's set calculate would go from set to 25 percent, Ryan strength be onto something.

If GE, on the another hand, hires 100 more lawyers and they find set loopholes for themselves and their company, then how does that turn polity debt?

In truth: Watch for GE to fight Ryan's plan tooth and nail. If GE did that, it would be far more disenchanting than Ryan's statement: "We believe in this land that we ought to hit a ethnic country net. ... The problem is our ethnic country gain is fraying at the seams."

If Ryan meant that sincerely, GE would go after him with blunt instruments. If not, you'll center the deafening quiet of digit assistance clapping.

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