News for WAPO: The Reasons Given by Politicians Are Often Not Their Real Motive

Most people are sophisticated enough when it comes to politics that they know politicians can't always be taken at their word. Unfortunately, the people who write for major news outlets apparently lack this sophistication. That is the reason an AP article in the Washington Post warned readers that Republicans may oppose a proposal for reforming the corporate income tax because:

"they have long insisted on tying corporate and individual tax reform so that small business owners who use the indi...