For the DC insiders it dosen’t matter if the taxes on the rich are never collected.
It is all about “optics”—aka conning the ignorant public.
There will always be gigantic loopholes for the rich—they will just hire a sharp tax accountant and deduct the cost for hiring them!
The weekly standard has always been a two-trick pony: defence o Israel and opposition to totalitarianism but compromise on other conservative ideals. The Grand Alliance of conservatives, neo-cons, social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, libertarians and blue collar Reagan Democrats can’t survive if you throw one element of the alliance under the bus.