"Remember: Tax reform will already have slashed rates radically. In one Simpson-Bowles scenario, the top rate plunges to 23 percent. Conservatives could at that point contemplate increasing net revenues by slightly tweaking these new low rates, say, back to Reagan’s 28 percent, still much lower than the current 35 percent and Obama’s devoutly desired 39.6 percent. The deviation from revenue neutrality would yield new tax receipts for the Treasury, in addition to those resulting from the economic growth stimulated by the lower rates." – Charles Krauthammer, NRO.
Frum celebrates the neocon high priest's deviationism. Of course I agree with both. Radical tax reform is win-win for both parties and the country, as Bowles-Simpson pointed out. If the Super-Committee were to embrace it, it would transform the debate.
The Dish 