Paul Ryan Booed While Addressing Tax Breaks For Wealthy At Town Hall

ThinkProgress:

Earlier this week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) embarked on a series of town halls across his southern Wisconsin congressional district...

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[tompoe]

05:24 PM on 04/23/2011

Geez. It's as if there's only one troll using multiple usernames on these budget articles. Every one of them goes ballistic with denial, when they're accused of supporting corporate welfare, defending corporate welfare, advocating for corporate welfare. Now, how can one be anti-social welfare, but not for corporate welfare? I hope the corporate boss that shells out for this/these trolls raises the standards, even a little bit.

[vigilantibus]

02:48 PM on 04/22/2011

His body language says it all. Self entitled delusional conviction. Had the truth be a wet fish slapping him in the face it still won't make the slightest difference.

[billw8017]

01:49 PM on 04/22/2011

Milton is just down Interstate 90 from Madison and has local colleges of its own. During Badger games, the overflow crowds fill motels in nearby Janesville. These people are not ill educated.

[Athelstane]

12:51 PM on 04/22/2011

Salon has a story about how tepid the "anger" at town hall meetings directed at Ryan budget supporters has been (sorry, you'll have to get the link yourself). Seems the dems had to follow Ryan around for four days and many meetings before they got this one rather mild video. Nothing like the outraged meetings over Obamacare that went viral. Liberals will just have to keep hoping for the outrage to materialize, because it hasn't yet.

[jbw1948]

11:56 PM on 04/23/2011

Well it must be picking up because I'm getting pissed!!!

[billw8017]

07:35 PM on 04/24/2011

Sure. Since the Wisconsin demonstrators didn't burn down the capital, they didn't assemble at all.

You do know, Ryan was addressing his own constituency? They called themselves Conservatives and may have chuckled even as they booed him, but they did know what called for the boos.

[hotbarb2614]

12:49 PM on 04/22/2011

Just read another Republican is being recalled in Wisconsin, that makes five Alberta Darling is about to be the fifth on They got 10,000 more signatures thand they needed. Go Wisconsin

[Anabelle Whitepaws]

12:04 PM on 04/22/2011

taheeheehee...

[southernman]

11:40 AM on 04/22/2011

Where's a hand full of dog poop when you need it. Ryan's face would look so much better with doggie do on it

[AlexNYC]

10:49 AM on 04/22/2011

Ryan is a shill for big corporations. His argument is false, while small business do generate the most jobs, the vast majority of the woners do not make over $250,000 annually. So the tax cuts extended for the rich has little to do with small businesses. It has to do with big businesses, the super rich, and continuing the myth that when the rich get richer it trickles down to create jobs and distributes wealth to the less affluent. That has proven to be totally false for 30 years now.

[JDZSB]

02:52 PM on 04/22/2011

There are thousands of small businesses and millions of employees in these businesses and most of the business gross income is in the 250K to 2 Million per year. They then adjust their gross and pay taxes as personal income. What we want is for them to re-invest and expand their business and hire people which then reduces their "taxable" income and that is how they create jobs. So keeping their rates down will in encourage them to expand and hire. There is a tax rate breakpoint where this strategy is not as effective and that rate can be higher where it is no longer a small business issue. Maybe anyone making over 2Million should pay higher taxes, and by the way, this may happen if the cuts in the excessive government spending is agreed upon.

[Num8er5]

05:07 PM on 04/22/2011

How did this get past the HP screeners??

[tompoe]

02:52 PM on 04/23/2011

Are you suggesting that small businesses are holding out on applying to the banks for expansion loans, and that's why we're in Depression level economics out here in Main Street? You really are silly. And, shame on you for defending corporate welfare programs at the expense of social welfare programs.

[jbw1948]

12:03 AM on 04/24/2011

If it ever worked before it wont now with corporations sending the jobs overseas!!!

[whatisrightisright]

10:45 AM on 04/22/2011

Where and what would the left be without class envy? They'd be nowhere and nothing.

[southernman]

11:41 AM on 04/22/2011

and where would the right wing be without ignorance , probably on the left

[billw8017]

01:52 PM on 04/22/2011

When Warren Buffet calls for more taxes for the wealthy, his class envy must be very specialized.

[Num8er5]

05:09 PM on 04/22/2011

It is "specialized" - Buffet makes about 100x what Obama is calling wealthy.

[Sisa]

07:12 AM on 04/22/2011

Has the Wisconsin effort to recall Pail Ryan begun yet?

[Deb Jesser]

09:20 AM on 04/22/2011

His days are numbered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXp-vpE9eU
Yesterday -- Beatles

[Dunkleberger Karl]

12:29 AM on 04/23/2011

Tick... Tick....Tick....

[fromdnorth]

04:50 AM on 04/22/2011

This is how it's done Ryan:

Michael Ignatieff speaks directly to Canadians in a TV special
about the Liberal plan to defend health care and strengthen families

OTTAWA – This Sunday, as families gather for the holidays, television networks across Canada will air a 30-minute, up-close-and-personal TV special about Liberal Party’s plan to strengthen families and defend Canada’s health care system.

“Michael Ignatieff’s Town Hall for Canada” will feature candid interviews with Mr. Ignatieff, and exclusive footage of him on the campaign trail in this election as he brings his message of hope to Canadians.

This half-hour English-language TV special will run on Global and CITY TV across Canada on Sunday afternoon – the same day that 1.7 million French-speaking Canadians will see Mr. Ignatieff on “Tout le monde en parle.”
“Michael Ignatieff’s Town Hall for Canada” will share his message of hope and his commitment to equal opportunity for all Canadians.

“Michael Ignatieff’s Town Hall for Canada” will make the case directly to Canadians why the Liberal Party is the only choice in this election that can protect Canada’s universal public health care system and bring a new level of economic stability to Canadian families through the Liberal Family Pack.

The Liberal Family Pack, at the heart of the Liberal Platform, will help families right away with the cost of child care, post-secondary education, family care, saving for retirement and energy-efficient home improvements.

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[livesimply]

01:06 AM on 04/22/2011

The quality of troll comments has really gone way down. What's up with that? They're way too easy.

[southernman]

11:43 AM on 04/22/2011

they can't see past their own hemorrhoids.

[Dunkleberger Karl]

12:31 AM on 04/23/2011

Ignorance is exspensive!
 
Cheaper to just drug the kids ,
 
Make them lie down in the halls
 
wake them @ 2:45pm
 
No need for teachers
 
 

[BobRobertsFeltRedundant]

11:29 PM on 04/21/2011

conservatives seem to really like crashing into walls at high speeds

this is good

[mcmutter]

08:58 AM on 04/22/2011

when you work hard to throw 85% of the country into poverty things like that will happen ....

[JAT3]

09:04 AM on 04/22/2011

well if not that, then at least into the ditch!

Amazing how they and the crash dummies look so alike! LOL!

[Tom95134]

11:22 PM on 04/21/2011

I saw the video. The man has a total 'tin ear" when it comes to the needs of the common people. He's lucky they didn't tar & feather him.

[Badger33]

10:56 PM on 04/21/2011

I'm happy to see this. The people in this district are waking up. The Dem party in this state needs to get its act together. Ryan is (over)ripe. There has to be at least one strong candidate to oppose him.

[fromdnorth]

04:51 AM on 04/22/2011

Send him $$$$$, he will buckle...