Our First Priority Is Upper-Class Tax Cuts. Our Second Priority Is That There Is No Other Priority.

I think Chait gets the lay of the land right here. What matters to congressional Republicans is low taxes for the wealthy, period. They’ll take cuts to spending for the poor, and they’ll accept cuts to middle class programs if they can blame Democrats for them, but given the choice they would much rather have upper-class tax cuts than cuts to Social Security and Medicare. And Republicans have a “plan” to reduce tax loopholes in the same sense that the Heritage Foundation had a “health care reform” plan.