I actually think Paul Ryan follows a rather traditional line of republican / conservative lawmakers. The basic premise, while they're out of office, has long been to inflate the costs of items that they favour (corporate and high earner tax cuts, corporate / military spending) while attempting to hold the overall budget constant. Eventually, they know that the fiscal situation will come to a head (due to the tax cuts / military spending) but that, when it comes to making the requisite cuts, no lawmaker on the democratic or republican side of the isle will dare touch corporate / military spending and corporate tax cuts.
In that respect, they're happy to reverse engineer their assumptions to make their vision fit and come to fruition. Hence Ryan's ludicrous budget with it's bat##### crazy assumptions. He knows, at the end of the day, that if the fiscal situation is dire, lawmakers are more like to cut welfare and public research programs than cut spending for corporate and military expenditures.
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