Yeah, it’s hard to really nail it down from that, but I think they’re trying to show the immediate cuts by quoting $500B in the next five years. Still bogus, of course.
Also, note all of the tax rates being quoted in ranges. (You just know that we’ll get the highest numbers.)
Also, how they like to quote the baseline change from Obama’s proposed monstrosity of a budget that got zero votes in the Senate.
I don’t understand why the Republicans make it so complicated. Few are going to understand this budgetary gymnastics on Main st. If McConnell wants to surrender just give barry his rubber checkbook and fight against tax increases. They have the democrat demagogue playbook but refuse to use it. Ridicule these useless dims every single day as unserious and without a plan.
When the WH offered $2 billion in cuts for FY 2012 Boehner should have shut down the pattycake with obama and gone “to the American people”. Yet instead we get plan after plan that is just distracting from the main issue: damaging and defeating obama in 2012.