Check, Please

The above, from a serious proposal, has been making the rounds among various political blogs, and I think it's an excellent idea to send an official and accurate version to every taxpayer. (Thanks, Timmyson, for reminding me.) Some would be outraged, I suppose. Everyone, though, ought to find it informative. To me, the expenses seem reasonable.

It also shows the extent to which the items over which teabaggers and other RWS™ get so exercised are almost negligible, in terms of what they want to eliminate to justify their unneeded and unjustifiable tax cuts. By which I mean the NEA, early childhood education, etc. Whereas there are some that dance around the edges of entitlement reform, the response of congressional Rs when Obama actually proposed doing something about it was to cry "death panels." Now, campaigning, when asked where they'd cut spending, they change the subject. In my state, political ads against a D Senator claim she cut billions from Medicare.

These tax-cutting budget balancers actually use attempts at addressing real numbers against those who do it. While claiming they're the ones to restore fiscal balance.

It can't be done. Not, at any rate, by teabagging.

Sadly, according to the receipt, getting rid of Congress entirely would result in barely a blip. And what a crew we'll have there if the teabagger candidates win their races.