Have I ever mentioned how much I despise Sen. Schumer(NSD-NY)?

The antireformer is Chuck Schumer, the Senator from Wall Street, er, New York, who averred at the National Press Club last week that his party will have nothing to do with tax reform of the kind that Ronald Reagan negotiated with Democrats in 1986, or that the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission proposed in 2010, or that the Gang of Six Senators have been working on. It's Chuck's way or no way. ...

Mr. Schumer says the only way to reform is to broaden the tax base and raise tax rates. If you're wondering how this differs from a plain vanilla tax increase, good question. ... Mr. Schumer's real agenda is betrayed by his other reason for opposing tax reform—income inequality. The affluent simply make too much money, so they must have more of it taken away and redistributed by . . . Mr. Schumer. ...

You might remember that he's also one of the worst gun bigots in our government; not only does he wet his pants at the idea of peasants with arms, his slogan seems to be "You might have built that, but you shouldn't be allowed to keep it.  Except the amount I approve."