Conventional wisdom on governments role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive. – Paul Ryan
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and natures God, not from government. – Paul Ryan
And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. – Paul Ryan
Thats what we do in this country. Thats the American Dream. Thats freedom, and Ill take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners. – Paul Ryan