Paul Ryan booed at his own town hall - Paul Ryan, R-Wis. - Salon.com

 

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The Republican legislator's own constituents send him a very simple message: Tax the rich! Video

By Andrew Leonard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h5kgnE1Xvec

AP/J. Scott Applewhite

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Every Democratic legislator needs to sit down and watch the video of Paul Ryan appearing at a town hall meeting in Wisconsin on Wednesday. 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.

• Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon. On Twitter, @koxinga21. More: Andrew Leonard

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