Part of me is strangely disappointed by this.

A profoundly unrealistic tax law that, even if it were feasible, most people wouldn't have even tried to obey, anyway?

It would have only served to underscore just how out of touch the political class is, and to remind Americans that priority #1 is squeezing us for every cent possible without causing a riot. With the right spin from the smaller government crowd, perhaps, if it had lasted, it would have done more good than ill?

I guess I'm among the minority, though, in preferring more rapid oppression to the baby steps that our government is so good at. The boiling frog, etc.