The Ryan Plan vs. the President’s Budget

Via-The Corner


By Veronique de Rugy

Pity the Liberal Mugger

Via-American Spectator

By ROSS KAMINSKY

Paul Ryan's budget sends his critics over the edge -- but should we worry Mitt Romney has praised it?

...In other words, according to the left, Paul Ryan and Republicans who support his plan are not only heartless, not just stupid, but going straight to hell....

The Overextended America

Via-American Spectator

By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR

..Choice of one policy over another policy. Choice over the government straitjacket. Choice is the natural consequence of a people who believe in personal liberty.

By making choices in public policy one creates competition and all the benefits that come from competition. One creates better policies, policies suited for individuals' varying needs. One creates efficiencies in distribution and in design of policies...

Now That's Leadership!

Via-American Spectator

By Ross Kaminsky

Paul Ryan's courageous budget is a challenge not only to Democrats to get our collapsing fiscal house in order but also to nervous Republicans.

...The House Republican budget contrasts mightily, in approach and in the numbers, with President Obama's recent budget, which could be entitled "The Path to Bankruptcy and Dependency," and with the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate's budget which, as Rep. Ryan subtly reminds us, does not exist. But it also throws down a gauntlet to Republican presidential candidates, pressing them to emphasize pro-growth economic policies more clearly and more aggressively.

The focus on foundational principles is neither idle talk nor only of academic interest to Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) whose "expression of…principles, vision, and philosophy of governing" is captured in the budget document. It is a philosophy and a budget that aim to put the U.S. back on track toward fiscal sanity and toward the uniquely American vision of limited government at limited cost. As Rep. Ryan's introduction notes, "Effective government is impossible without limits. It is no surprise that trust in government has reached all-time lows as the size of government has reached all-time highs...."

Paul Ryan’s new budget offers a path to prosperity and solvency

Via-AEI

By James Pethokoukis

...But the latest version of Ryan’s Path to Prosperity, released today, does far more than defeat a rival who’s decided to forfeit the field. It presents a bold and sweeping solution to America’s twin problems: too much debt and too little economic growth...