Josh Barro, Columnist

Paul Ryan’s Hypocritical Attack on Barack Obama

August 30, 2012 at 6:41 AM UTC

Josh Barro is the lead writer for the Ticker, Bloomberg View's blog on economics, finance and politics. His primary areas of interest include tax and fiscal policy, state and local government, and planning and land use. Previously, Barro was a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a commercial real estate banker at Wells Fargo. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard and lives in Queens, New York.

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Paul Ryan forcefully attacked the Obama administration tonight. But many ofthe criticisms he leveled against Barack Obama apply equally to his and MittRomney’s own records.

Ryan attacked Obama’s Patient Protection Affordable Care Act for being ladenwith “mandates, taxes, fees and fines that have no place in a free country.” Hewas talking about mandates such as the one Mitt Romney imposed inMassachusetts.