The Darth Vader Budget

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from OurFuture.org:



The Darth Vader Budget
By Bernie Horn

April 1st, 2009 - 4:01pm ET


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House Republicans just released their substitute budget for FY 2010. It is a very extreme right-wing plan for America. The ideas contained in this proposal are so far out of the mainstream that you have to wonder not just what planet these people are from, but whether they’ve been sent by the Galactic Empire to destroy our civilization.

The GOP plan would rescind the recently-enacted economic stimulus package, which would cause America—and the world—to spiral into Depression.

Except for some unemployment insurance payments, the stimulus would be repealed as of October 1, 2009.

The GOP plan would hand over nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts to the rich.

This proposal would make permanent George Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the rich and provide an alternative system with only two tax rates (10 percent applying to the first $50,000 in income, and a top rate of 25 percent applying to all income after that) which would be even more generous to the rich. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009041401/darth-vader-budget