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Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

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Paul Ryan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 29
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Janesville
Wisconsin
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