Sentences like the above do for the brain what French Vanilla Ice Cream does to one's arteries. And you missed the bit Politico about where it is
impossible to carry out Mittens' "vision" here without a full court press against the big three: deductions for state and local income taxes, mortgage interest on personal residences, and charitable deductions. None. Not if you are claiming that the "reforms" will be basically revenue neutral.
Mittens is setting himself up to be punching bag in the debates over this. I'd gut him myself. Just gut him. It irritates me.