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Republican plan to reform Medicare. The seniors-interest advocacy organization is spending $1.4 million to run the ad
nationally.” [60 Plus, 6/17/11]
In 2011, AFP Backed FY 2012 Ryan Budget. According to AFP’s congressional scorecard for the 112th Congress, AFP
took a “yes” position the House vote on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed budget resolution
covering fiscal years 2012 to 2021 which included a proposal to replace Medicare with a premium support plan. [AFP
Scorecard for the 112th Congress, 2/1/13]
• The Ryan Budget Replaced Medicare With A Premium Support Plan. According to the Congressional Research
Service, “Under the new system, Medicare would pay a portion of the beneficiaries’ premiums, i.e., provide ‘premium
support.’ The payments would be adjusted for age, health status, and income and would be paid directly by the
government to the insurance plan selected by the Medicare beneficiary. In addition, plans with healthier enrollees,
would be required to help subsidize plans with less healthy enrollees.” [House vote 277, CRS Report #R41767,
4/13/11]
In 2012, AFP Backed FY 2013 Ryan Budget. According to AFP’s congressional scorecard for the 112th Congress, AFP
took a “yes” position on the House vote on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed budget
resolution covering fiscal years 2013 to 2022 which included a proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age to 67 by 2034.
[AFP Scorecard for the 112th Congress, 2/1/13]
• The Ryan Budget Proposed Raising The Medicare Eligibility Age To 67 By 2034. According to the
Congressional Research Service, “The budget proposal would gradually increase the Medicare eligibility age to 67.
Beginning in 2023, the age of eligibility for Medicare would increase by two months each year until it reached 67 in
2034.” [House vote 151.; CRS Report #R42441, 3/29/12]
Ryan’s Budget Plan Cut Spending On Education But Kept Tax Breaks For Oil Companies
Ryan Budget Cut Spending On Education But Kept Tax Breaks For Oil Companies. According to the Daily Beast,
“When House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled the GOP blueprint for cutting government spending, he
asked Americans to make sacrifices on everything from Medicare to education, while preserving lucrative tax subsidies for the
booming oil, mining and energy industries.” [Daily Beast, 6/17/11]
• Ryan Had Financial Interest In Oil Companies That Benefit From Oil Subsidies. According to the Daily Beast,
“The financial disclosure report Ryan filed with Congress last month and made public this week shows he and his wife,
Janna, own stakes in four family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to the very energy companies that
benefit from the tax subsidies in Ryan's budget plan. Ryan's father-in-law, Daniel Little, who runs the companies, told
Newsweek and The Daily Beast that the family companies are currently leasing the land for mining and drilling to energy
giants such as Chesapeake Energy, Devon, and XTO Energy, a recently acquired subsidiary of ExxonMobil. Some of
these firms would be eligible for portions of the $45 billion in energy tax breaks and subsidies over 10 years protected in
the Wisconsin lawmaker’s proposed budget.” [Daily Beast, 6/17/11]
Ryan Proposed Drastic Cuts To Safety Nets While Lowering Taxes For Rich
Paul Krugman: Ryan’s 2010 Plan Would Have Reduced “Revenue By Almost $4 Trillion” And Cause A Deficit Of
“Roughly $1.3 Trillion” By 2020. According to an opinion by columnist Paul Krugman for the New York Times, “But the
budget office has done no such thing. At Mr. Ryan’s request, it produced an estimate of the budget effects of his proposed
spending cuts — period. It didn’t address the revenue losses from his tax cuts. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has,
however, stepped into the breach. Its numbers indicate that the Ryan plan would reduce revenue by almost $4 trillion over the
next decade. If you add these revenue losses to the numbers The Post cites, you get a much larger deficit in 2020, roughly $1.3
trillion.” [Paul Krugman – New York Times, 8/5/10]
Krugman: The Tax Policy Center Found That The Ryan Plan Would Have “Cut Taxes On The Richest 1 Percent Of
The Population In Half, Giving Them 117 Percent Of The Plan’s Total Tax Cuts.” According to an opinion by
columnist Paul Krugman for the New York Times, “And I do mean slash. The Tax Policy Center finds that the Ryan plan