Like a panicked second-grader who throws some white paint on a few two-by-fours after remembering that his book report on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is due tomorrow, President Trump unveiled his, um, "tax reform proposal" yesterday to great fanfare. I employ scare quotes here because said proposal is in fact a one-page collection of vague nonsense that appears to have been fashioned by someone who just discovered Microsoft Word allows you to use bullet points:

The non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that the Trump tax plan would cost the U.S. somewhere in the $5.5 trillion range over ten years, and the proposed cut in the corporate tax rate to 15 percent could eat up $2 trillion of that figure all by itself. While most recaps of the proposal basically shrugged their shoulders and graded it as "incomplete," The Atlantic cooked up a jaw-dropping graphic explaining how much money Trump's proposal would have saved individual taxpayers, by income bracket, in 2017. The chart, as The Atlantic's Derek Thompson sagely notes, speaks for itself:

Incredulous commentators spent yesterday furiously trying to out-do one another's best slams of the Trump tax plan, roasting it as "voodoo economics on steroids" (California congressman Ted Lieu), "a wish list for billionaires" (House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi), and, my personal favorite, "a laughable stunt by a gang of plutocrats" (the New York Times editorial board). Today, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hopped on Good Morning America in a well-intentioned effort to reassure confused Republican lawmakers and/or terrified middle-class voters that, don't worry, the White House is aware of your concerns and absolutely knows what it's doing here. In what will probably come as shocking news to you, this did not go well.