Questions for Speaker Ryan

Your ever-helpful Democratic Whip press shop thought we’d send you a few questions to ask Speaker Ryan at his tax reform speech this afternoon (you’re welcome):

  1. How do you plan to get tax reform done when the House GOP hasn’t even proposed a budget, which Republicans said was necessary in order to use reconciliation to get tax reform through the Senate?
  2. How does a massive tax cut to the wealthy, such as the one in TrumpCare, create jobs for American families?
  3. How big of a tax cut will President Trump receive?
  4. Will Republicans adhere to the “Mnuchin rule” that the wealthy won’t receive a net tax cut?
  5. Will your tax cuts be paid for, or will you instead allow them to explode the deficit?
  6. If your tax cuts fail to spur the economy and explode the deficit, as economic history would indicate, will you raise taxes to close the gap – as happened in Kansas?
  7. You claim that you’ll eliminate loopholes used by the wealthy – which ones?
  8. Have you even considered working with Democrats to draft bipartisan tax reform?

And while you’ve got him, a few other questions you could ask:

  1. As the former Budget Committee Chairman, and someone who spoke frequently about the importance of a budget, how can you defend not doing a budget this year?
  2. Are you going to allow a vote on a clean debt limit extension before the August recess to ensure America doesn’t default?

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