Paul Ryan's Record On Science and Government

sciencehabit writes "U.S. Representatives Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) don't have much in common when it comes to politics. Kucinich is a very liberal Democrat who's leaving Congress this January after being defeated in a primary election by a more moderate colleague. Ryan is a conservative leader and now the Republican Party's presumptive candidate for vice president. A dozen years ago, however, the two men found one thing they could agree on—killing the National Ignition Facility, a multibillion dollar laser fusion project at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The article goes on to explore other impacts Ryan could have on science as VP."

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Re:I visited the National Ignition Facility this y

[jmorris42]

That is a good resource but it doesn't show the comparison with Europe I was wanting to point out. That we are already far more progressive in our tax policy than countries with outright socialists in charge. In other words, we are almost certainly maxed out and probably way on the bad side of the Laffer Curve. Raising more revenue via taxation isn't an option. The rich are already taxed beyond the line where you get revenue for raising rates and if you even talk about raising rates on the already beleagered middle class you will have a revolt.

The bottom half are already getting more from the State than they pay in all taxes combined. They pay more Federal Income tax and usually no State Income tax. They do pay some FICA and sales taxes but get the Earned Income Tax Credit and almost always a few government handouts which cancels those out and usually leaves them in the black. And changing that would be instant political suicide in the current environment.

Re:I visited the National Ignition Facility this y

[scot4875]

The guy equating taxes to theft by gunpoint is claiming strawman. That's rich.

--Jeremy