product, conservative wish list. turned medicare into a voucher program and make medicaid a block program. the murray budget by contrast is a much more cautious proposal. one to one ratio of spending cuts and new tax revenue. with the coverage focusing on these plans, there is a third proposal, one that constitutes a much stronger liberal weight to the unbending conservatism of the ryan budget. that is the budget propose bid the congressional progressive caucus which would add $2 trillion in new spending to create jobs and pay for it by raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. the entire discussion about budgeting has been anchored on the right by all the attention the ryan budget has gotten. even though it is billed it is a dem contractic alternative this is for, murray budget is in some ways closer to the ryan plan when you take the progressive proposal into account. check this out. the ryan budget would cut nondefense discretion airin funding, education transportation and soci
medicare this way. we are talking in terms of medicare, talking about a program that even a majority of tea partiers do not want touched. that is if a are more notion than the idea that somehow we are going to go back to traditional that we had in this country for the vast majority. let me interject. not just traditional tax base. there is a bunch of new taxes. carbon tax and financial transaction tax. we are never going to get close to the marginal tax rates we had 30 years ago. the question as to whether or not these budgets are fantastical is also, i think, look, we have the sequester now. there s really no weir we have de facto budget. beer seeing competing measures for what the government should do at this point. and the ryan budget basically says that the government should just go away. [ male announcer ] ok, here s the way the system works.
instead, the law turned medicare into a piggybank for obamacare. boo! you don t have to take my word for it. you don t have to take my word for it, ask the chief actuary at the centers for medicare and medicaid services. he works for the obama administration, and his job is to look after your medicare. well, last year we invited him to congress to answer a simple question; if president obama s medicare cuts were used to pay for new spending in obamacare, how can they also improve medicare s solvency? his answer? they can t. it s simple. you can t spend the same dollar twice. his exact words were, quote: it takes two sets of money to the make it happen. [applause] president obama spent one set on a government takeover of health care, and he never provided the other to strengthen medicare.