{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.speaker.gov/general/wisconsinites-are-getting-tax-cut-speaker-ryan-talks-tmj4-s-charles-benson", "Wisconsinites are getting a tax cut: Speaker Ryan talks to TMJ4\u2019s Charles Benson", "2017-12-22", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "www.speaker.gov", null, null, "legacy", "This week, House Speaker and Wisconsins First District Congressman Paul Ryan spoke to TMJ4s Charles Benson about how Wisconsinites will benefit from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Watch the interview here and check out excerpts below:\nPaul Ryan: I ran the numbers on Wisconsin, the average family of four in Wisconsin, earning the median income in Wisconsin, is going to get a little over a $2,000 tax cut, next year alone. That helps a lot of people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck. That helps a lot of people in Wisconsin who are struggling to make ends meet, who are nervous about their situation, their economic problems.\nPaul Ryan: Heres how you should do the math, I was in Beloit this weekend at a Volleyball tournament\nCharles Benson: Youre talking [about]this at a Volleyball tournament?\nPaul Ryan: Oh yeah, everywhere I go I get this. . . .Double the Child Tax Credit from where it is today, so if you have kids, your Child Tax Credit goes from $1,000 to $2,000, your tax rates go down across the board, everybodys tax rates go down, and thirdly the standard deduction doubles, so instead of having the first $12,000 not being taxes, your first $24,000 as a family is not being taxed. But what is just as exciting is the wage increases we think will come from having business tax relief, so that we can make businesses more completive, so they can hire more people, pay more wages, but more importantly compete in a global economy that weve been really not doing well with that. Weve had the worst tax code in the industrialized world. Now were going to have one of the best.\nPaul Ryan: Charles, youre a Milwaukee guy, the biggest company we have in Milwaukee that was publically traded was Johnson Controls, which used to be headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. . . .Their headquarters are inCork, Ireland, because Ireland has a 12.5 percent tax rate, not a 35 percent tax rate. When you start losing headquarters, when you start losing companies going overseas, we lose jobs.\nCharles Benson: Youre eliminating the individual mandate, and some people fear thats going to cost them more?\nPaul Ryan: Actually its quite the opposite. So instead of making people buy health insurance they dont want or cant afford, were letting people do what they want to do. Were giving people freedom to buy the health care plan of their choosing, instead of forcing people to buy a plan that they dont want or cant afford.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.speaker.gov/general/wisconsinites-are-getting-tax-cut-speaker-ryan-talks-tmj4-s-charles-benson"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4916788786649704, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}