Guess What's In The Box?

The Box contains the Secret Republican Budget Plan. Guess what's the one semi-concrete identifiable proposal in the Secret Republican Budget Plan?

Go on. Guess.

(TAXEN CUTTEN UBER ALLES!)

Under the Republican plan, the top marginal tax rate would be slashed from 35 to 25 percent, facilitating a dramatic transfer of wealth up the economic scale. Anyone making more than a $100,000 would pay the top rate; those under would pay 10 percent.

Yeah, that'll fix the deficit. The presser went like this:

"Are you going to have any further details on this today?" the first asked.

"On what?" asked Boehner.

"There's no detail in here," noted the reporter.

Answered Boehner: "This is a blueprint for where we're going. Are you asking about some other document?"

A second reporter followed up: "What about some numbers? What about the out-year deficit? What about balancing the budget? How are you going to do it?"

"We'll have the alternative budget details next week," promised Boehner. Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had wisely departed the room after offering his opening remarks. ("Today's Republican road-to-recovery is the latest in a series of GOP initiatives, solutions and plans," he had offered.)

A third reporter asked Boehner about the Republican goal for deficit reduction, noting President Obama aimed to cut it in half in five years. "What's your goal?"

"To do better," said Boehner.

"How? How much?"

"You'll see next week."

"Wait. Why not today? Because he asked you to present a budget."

"Now, hold on," said Boehner. "The president came to Capitol Hill and laid out his blueprint for his budget during the State of the Union. He didn't offer his details until days later."

"In general, where do you see cuts coming?" the Huffington Post asked.

"We'll wait and see next week," he said.

The new Republican Party motto: Tax Cuts And Magical Thinking.

And people wonder why nobody takes these goons seriously anymore. Honestly, if you assume the rest of their budget is a spending freeze on everything but Pentagon spending, jack up Pentagon spending by 10%, and then add in this massive tax cut for the rich, you pretty much have to assume we're looking at what, doubling that $1.3 trillion deficit Bush gave to Obama?

So of course to make up for that tax cut, the GOP budget would have to either completely wreck the dollar and triple our national debt in ten years or on the other hand basically destroy every social program in the country during a huge recession, either way decimating America's economy.

Somebody needs to remind John Boehner that he is utterly irrelevant.

[UPDATE] Iggy discovers that the real problem with the GOP "budget" is the fascist European socialist central planning policies it contains. More deficit spending than Obama, more government control over the economy than Obama: the GOP playbook of "accuse your opponent of doing something unspeakably horrible and then make sure you're doing it doubly so" hasn't changed from the Rove days.