Paul Fanlund is the editor of The Capital Times, the fifth editor in its history. A long-time Madisonian, he was a State Journal reporter and editor before taking a business job with Madison Newspapers for six years. He joined the Cap Times in 2006. With Madison360, he offers insights into the Cap Times and CT-fueled sites such as 77Square.com and Madison.com sports, and shares information, observations and links to help readers better engage in our always interesting city.
His message was previewed in this op-ed in Monday's Chicago Tribune.
Predictably, it includes an attack on President Obama's proposal that taxes be increased only on the wealthiest Americans. "The president says that only the richest people in America would be affected by his plan," Ryan wrote. "Class warfare may or may not be clever politics, but it is terrible economics. Redistributing wealth never creates more of it, and sowing class envy makes America weaker, not stronger."
Time-tested GOP dogma, but then he added, "Playing one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country — corporate welfare that enriches the powerful and empty promises that betray the powerless."
Wow. Kind of like Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker pitting public workers against all others, most of the state against Madison and Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Madison against other schools in the UW System. Or when he rushes through tax breaks that will cost the state $117 million over the two-year budget cycle.
Kind of like that.
Predictably, it includes an attack on President Obama's proposal that taxes be increased only on the wealthiest Americans. "The president says that only the richest people in America would be affected by his plan," Ryan wrote. "Class warfare may or may not be clever politics, but it is terrible economics. Redistributing wealth never creates more of it, and sowing class envy makes America weaker, not stronger."
Time-tested GOP dogma, but then he added, "Playing one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country — corporate welfare that enriches the powerful and empty promises that betray the powerless."
Wow. Kind of like Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker pitting public workers against all others, most of the state against Madison and Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Madison against other schools in the UW System. Or when he rushes through tax breaks that will cost the state $117 million over the two-year budget cycle.
Kind of like that.
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