It was strategery -- a trial balloon designed to fail. DUms should have called the bluff, because the GOP is going to be able to flood the zone with the plethora of details
they were willing to put on the table every time Bobo raises his main
raison d'etre for re-election -- which was a horribly awful gambit to begin with from Axelrot and deserves to be rammed right back at 'em.
That said there are only a handful of Congressmen that are both smart enough to make hay and clever enough as extemporaneous speakers to toss said hay over Bobo's head.
This is why the ‘class warfare’ works so well for the RATS, even the majority of Republicans aren't willing to go along with tax reform if it effects them.
That only leaves the very poor and very rich in small enough groups to heap the cuts on. We all know which of those two it is acceptable to attack.
That is why I think that only a flat tax with a high personal exemption has any chance of ever passing.