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The Gist

Tax Cut Conundrum

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Paul Ryan cared about just one thing: cutting taxes. Word choice is not always the most stimulating place to start an interview with an author, but it works when you're talking to Sloane Crosley. The essayist defends metaphors like "Holocaust bunk bed" and the related analogy, "as if the Brady Bunch were filmed in Nazi Germany." Crosley's latest book—a collection of essays—is Look Alive Out There. In the Spiel, Congress failed to pin Mark Zuckerberg down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.3

It's Wednesday, April 11, 2018 from Slated to Justime, Mike Pesca with the announced

0:40.9

resignation of House Speaker Paul Ryan at the end of his term. Here is an interesting fact

0:47.2

or occurrence if you look at the presidential order of secession. Other than Mike Pence

0:53.8

was elected into the office. The next three slots on that order are people who have gone or will

1:01.8

be going. Vice President, he's up first, then the Speaker of the House, Ryan's going, then the

1:07.2

President Pro Tem of the Senate that's orange hatch. He's announced his intention to leave.

1:12.2

Number four is Secretary of State, who used to be Rex Tillerson and is now, do you know whose

1:17.9

in line for the presidency? John J Sullivan, acting Secretary of State.

1:23.4

Paul Ryan's legacy will be one thing that he is proud of. He cut taxes and another thing he

1:28.8

should be ashamed of. He grew the deficit. The two couldn't be more related because for all

1:34.3

this supposed fiscal hawkery, he's really a tax cutter, full stop. Consequences be damned.

1:41.4

He and all conservatives really have a line. Well, if spending were rained in, then there wouldn't

1:47.4

be this huge deficit. That's true. And the man who eats a whole pizza and two apple pies every

1:51.6

night can argue that it's not my gluttony that makes me fat. It's merely the fact that I'm not

1:57.2

burning calories at a Michael Phelps-esque rate. But let's check with some conservative voices

2:03.7

on the Ryan announced retirement. John Pajoritz of Commentary Notes that Paul Ryan's number one

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