An observer from up on the Hill chimes in on the latest GOP budget shenanigans …
[Ryan’s ‘shadow budget’] reminds me if the Republican “substitute” budget we voted on last year that was essentially the same thing from Ryan. Allowing people to “choose” a tax structure is just Republicans being cowards. You see, by including the drastically lower tax bracket as a choice (since it was a budget and had to have, you know, numbers), when it came time to predict revenues, it assumed that NO ONE chose the simplified tax code, and the massive dropoff in revenues simply disappeared. Its one of the reasons its so aggravating listening to Ryan smugly pontificate about deficits and budgets. He knows he’s full of it, and he knows his phony “budget” is full of it.
