A constituent lays out the problem of growing concentration of wealth in the top 1 percent of the U.S. population, and then questions the wisdom of continuing to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
He is applauded by the audience.
Ryan, in response, attacks the notion that wealth should be redistributed, and says “we do tax the top.”
He is booed, heartily.
The message could not be any clearer. The people – arch-conservative Paul Ryan’s people!– have spoken. Tax. The. Rich.
Paul Ryan booed at his own town hall
