It's an "offer" in the same sense that Obama is "asking" wealthier Americans to pay more taxes.
If we had an honest media, or 0bama was a republican, they would have been all over the concept of the government “asking” anyone to pay more in taxes.
I’ve found that that’s one thing that libs are more averse to than anything - the concept that they are authorizing the government to use coercive deadly force to implement their (the libs’) feel good ideas.