Paul Ryan's Republican budget plan that was passed last week?

 Check out this happy little note:


According to an analysis by the non-partisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the Republicans' “roadmap” would “end most of government other than Social Security, health care, and defense by 2050,” while providing the “largest tax cuts in history” for the wealthy.


...the plan would also “place a new consumption tax on most goods and services, a measure that would increase taxes on most low- and middle-income families.” According to the Tax Policy Center, about three-quarters of Americans — people who earn between $20,000 and $200,000 per year — would face tax increases if the GOP's scheme became law.


The CBO says that by 2030, seniors would end up paying 70 percent of their health costs out of pocket under Ryan's plan, but that assumes insurers will cover them, which is anything but a given.


Fortunately, when the American public finds out details about it, they aren't for it:  A poll conducted last week found that, “when voters learn almost anything about [the Ryan plan], they turn sharply and intensely against it.”


Additionally, Reuters' James Pethokoukis suggested that Ryan's plan may prove to be “a 73-page suicide note” for the party.


More good news, by my way of thinking:  Last week, a Public Policy Polling survey revealed that those “fickle independents” who sent the Tea Party Congress to Washington “are turning against the GOP in a big way” just a few short months later. “Exit polls showed Independents supporting the GOP by a 19-point margin last year at 56-37,” noted the pollsters. “Now only 30 percent of those voters think that the Republican-controlled House is moving things in the right direction, compared to 44 percent who think things were better with the Democrats.”


As I said earlier today, it looks as though the extreme right wing crazies may be headed back a bit more to the center--and to reality--than they have been.


It's enough to put sun in a rainy day.


(But then, wait---what can explain this?:  Republican insiders embrace Trump's presidential bid )


WTH??


Links:  Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet. He is the author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy (and Everything else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America). Drop him an email or follow him on Twitter.
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