A GOP budget with no hard numbers (LOL)

[underpants]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867398.aspx

In fact, we received this email from a House GOP spokeswoman, "Given the President’s comments night that, 'we haven’t seen a budget out of ,' we wanted to make sure to make you all aware that we are introducing our Republican Budget Alternative tomorrow."

And then what happens today? House Republicans release a 19-page document that contains no hard spending numbers or deficit projections. Per the AP, "One of the few hard bits of information is a promise to simplify the tax code and cut income tax rates to 10 percent for people making $100,000 or less down. They also promise to cut domestic spending below current levels but don't say whether they are exempting Social Security. It's impossible to determine the projected deficit based on their offering."

The House GOP leaders say they'll unveil more details next week. "We were always planning on putting out an overall blueprint, which we did today," House Minority Leader Boehner's office emails First Read. "The numbers will come next week with a multi-hundred page piece of legislation that Paul Ryan is currently drafting."

Not surprisingly, the Democratic National Committee pounced on the GOP's budget -- or lack thereof. "After 27 days, the best House Republicans could come up with is a 19-page pamphlet that does not include a single real budget proposal or estimate," said DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan. "While there had been talk that House Republicans were overriding their Senate counterparts to offer a budget alternative, it's clear after this announcement that neither of them have anything to offer but criticism."

[Cary]

1. Someone please put them out of their misery.

And give us a break from them.

[Winterblues]

2. The bias is recognizable in this short blurb

They could have just as easily said they reduce taxes for everyone and every company making over $100,000.00 a year by almost a third. Instead they chose to say everyone making less than a hundred thousand will get a reduction. Or they could have even just said EVERYONE will get a MAJOR tax cut so there will be no Government revenues to worry about..

[TahitiNut]

3. Actually, depending on the details, their proposal could increase taxes on all but the affluent.

There are many people earning under $100K who pay less than 10% due to exemptions and deductions. Indeed, there are many earning between $100K and about $250K who pay far less than the 10%/25% rates. What they're doing (no surprise) is pandering to the wealthy and proposing a HUGE tax reduction on the wealthiest ... the largest in history.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Fark posters eviscerate Republican blueprint

I thought DUers were Snark Kings, but these folks are hilarious-

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4291765&startid=49808303

[underpants]

5. You are right