After receiving a lot of criticism for knocking Obama's budget plan but offering none of their own, yesterday House GOP leaders, notably John Boehner and Eric Cantor, brought out a budget of their own. Well, at least an outline of a budget. Eighteen whole pages! It was such a great plan that I had to go to several websites this morning to even see a mention of it. I finally found a short article about it in the Politics section of the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/26/AR2009032603694.html?nav=hcmodule
There are almost no details in this plan. No indication of a deficit amount, no rundown of how much each government department will receive under this plan, no specifics whatsoever. But wait!! There is one interesting number here.... 25%! That's the maximum tax rate the Republicans want people who already have a lot of money to pay. It is now 36%. That's a whopping 11% tax cut for the wealthy!! Whaddya know... the Republicans want the wealthy to get a huge tax cut! And they don't say how they're going to pay for it! No, seriously. I'm not making this up.
Maybe Boehner will come out next Wednesday, get in front of a microphone and yell "April Fools"!
