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>> ronald reagan. >> i think he's more like barry goldwater, but that's another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out they're totally wrong. one of reagan's own budget architects wrote a skatcathing critique of ryan's plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding error's worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy in america. and reagan's budget director goes on to say he calls ryan's plan phony and calls it devoid of credible math or hard p...

>> reaganesque attributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think he's more like barry goldwater, but that's another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out they're totally wrong. one of reagan's own budget architects wrote a scathing critique of ryan's plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding error's worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy in america. and reagan's budget director goes on to say he calls ryan's plan phony and calls it devoid of...

8.525-4389%, whatever it was, saying your pain is my rounding error. i don't think it's playing well. it's getting worse. >> bret: so is president obama hitting a chord, paul, with the fairness. stastatements in the wake of numbers that don't line up -- >> he is raising doubts about mitt romney with them. i don't think there is any question about them. particularly the bain attacks. not so much his wealth but bain and the outsourcing. if you talk to the romney campaign they say some of it has hurt. it hurt perception of romney's empathy and his image as a job creator. some of that has hurt. ho...

Taxes most poor people, the main taxes they pay are payroll taxes. the taxes go to fund social security and medicare. beyond that, topeka, kansas pays state and local taxes. poor people and middle class pay large amounts of taxes, the income tax is the one primarily progressive tax we have in this nation. when you only focus in on that, you have taken out the taxes that poor people pay. >> all of these republican legislatures, not everybody, but just about everybody, it's a rounding error to consider who hasn't sworn a blood oath to grover norquist that he or she will never raise taxes on anyo...

When brownback was wanting to pay for the bill, he wanted to raise the state tax and take away the income tax for the poor people in his state. the folks do pay large amounts of taxes. the income tax is the one primarily progressive tax we have in this nation, so when you only focus in on it, you have taken out the taxes that poor people pay. >> all of these republican legislatures, not everybody, but just about everybody, it's a rounding error to consider who hasn't sworn a blood oath to grover norquist that he or she will never raise taxes on anyone. at any time for any reason while they hol...