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Ryan backs off claim that everybody would get a tax cut in the GOP plan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-09/ryan-backs-off-claim-that-everybody-gets-a-tax-cut-in-gop-plan?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialHouse Speaker Paul Ryan backed off his promise that everyone would get a tax cut in the GOP’s overhaul plan, as nonpartisan analyses showed that some people would pay more.
“At every income level, there is a tax cut for the average family,” Ryan said in a statement Thursday, citing a study by the Joint Committee on Taxation.
This is different from his response in a radio interview Wednesday. “So actually, even though there’s a lot of false information out there, everybody gets a tax cut,” Ryan told Brian Kilmeade of Fox News. “The Joint Committee on Taxation that runs the numbers for us, that runs the numbers for Congress, says everybody gets a tax cut, everyone gets the tax cut.”
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