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
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. – Paul Ryan
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. – Paul Ryan
When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans fears about the future. – Paul Ryan
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. – Abraham Lincoln