Paul Ryan on Meet the Press: We Need a Clean Break from the Politics of the Past

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House Budget Committee Paul Ryan of Wisconsin joins NBC's Meet the Press to highlight The Path to Prosperity: budget.house.gov Ryan highlights the House Republicans' success in cleaning up the Democrats' budget mess for the current fiscal year, but underscored the need to "move from talking about saving billions of dollars to going on to saving trillions of dollars." Regarding the President's request to raise the debt ceiling, Ryan argued that you first need "real spending cuts and real spending controls, real caps on spending going forward so we can take pressure off the debt and get this country on the right fiscal path." Regarding too many politicians focused on the next election at the expense of the next generation, Ryan called for "a clean break from the politics of the past. Both parties do this to each other. Both parties use hyper rhetoric, both parties use all of this demagoguery. And what happens? We have political paralysis and we don't fix the country's problems, but we have a debt crisis staring us in the face and that's what's got to get fixed." On the futile effort to chase ever-higher spending with ever-higher taxes: "The problem with a bunch of tax increases -- the President just raised taxes 0 billion [in his health care law], he's calling for new .5 trillion in tax increases [in his budget] --you slow down economic growth. We want job creation and economic growth. We don't think the answer to prosperity is borrowing and spending more money. We got ...

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