[IrishPennant]

...and if the outcry is great enough he shelves it until a later date...when more acceptable!

Agreed - testing the waters...it will be back in another form.

[Kackikat]

And there are three states actually considering doing this now as a state tax, so see how they float an idea and their stooges at state level pick it up.
And you are right, what doesn’t get picked up by the stooges will come back in another form. Disgusting!