It's looking more and more likely that Ryan's wonky-looking report will merely serve as the appetizer for another effort to slash funding for low-income programs--the central thrust of his previous budgets--with maybe a "reform" (e.g., relative improvement of EITC benefits for people without dependent children) tossed in for marketing purposes. We'll know soon enough, but no one should be fooled into thinking that footnotes are necessarily a better justification for Ryan's policies than his past assertions that poor people need to be liberated from government assistance.