Letter to the Editor: Reader sees contradiction in Republican budget position

Let's see, based on figures from the Congressional Budget Office, the House Republican budget plan would eliminate Medicare as we know it. The plan would also give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to U.S. billionaires and raise taxes on the middle class to make up the loss in revenue. If implemented, Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget plan would eliminate 1.7 million jobs in the first two years.

To top it all off, according to Matt Miller, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, “The House Republican budget plan adds six trillion dollars to the debt in the next decade, yet th...