If Americans Are Stupid Enough To Fall For This - They Deserve Whatever They Get.

[DeistPaladin]

Defense spending would increase.

Well, of course, I mean, we need to protect ourselves from... from... ...?

...And Medicare would be converted into a “premium support” system, where people 65 and older could purchase private insurance with federal subsidies instead of government-paid health care.

If either of my two in-laws were to ever call to apply for private health insurance, the agent on the other end would laugh and hang up the phone. I think it's a fair guess that most of the over 65 crowd are un-insurable for one reason or other.

But hey, they'll have a coupon for a product they won't be able to buy. That's valuable.

...Mr. Ryan is assuming his cuts would prompt a burst of economic growth to raise tax revenues above what independent economists forecast.

Well, hey, in fairness, the whole tax-cuts-create-economic-growth-which-increases-tax-revenue-to-pay-for-itself has never been tried before so it just might work.

Well, OK, we tried it under Reagan and it didn't work.
...and we tried it under W Bush and it didn't work.
...and we did the opposite under Clinton, which the GOP predicted would be an economic disaster, and doing the opposite worked.
...but other than those three times, we haven't tried it yet. It just might work this time.