If a textbook case of how not to sell a big picture tax reform to the Australian people was needed, this has been it.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull may still have time to rescue a tax reform push with some detailed proposals, but he is edging closer to a point of no return when it simply becomes impossible to do anything meaningful on the tax front beyond nibbling at the edges.
For once today I was beaten to the punch in writing a sensible critique, from Tony Walker at Domainfax: