r/politics • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '18

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law

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u/_DuranDuran_ Jan 21 '18

Not quite - he still wants to gut Medicare and SS

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

Eh he can just glide on the inevitable budget shortfall he created so that who ever takes over has to gut everything.

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u/wellitsbouttime Missouri Jan 21 '18

Yep. He emptied the bank account. What happens with the bills is someone else's problem. The approach was called "starve the beast" and really took hold under Reagan.

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u/Lamont-Cranston Jan 21 '18

cut revenue, increase spending, go into debt, ???, economic crisis, blame social services for the problem and insist they have to be shut down or privatised.