THAT is the only message we can draw from Mar Roxas’ disappointing remarks on Monday, in which he confirmed that he fully supports President BS Aquino 3rd’s ignorant, anti-people rejection of broad-based calls to reduce income taxes.

Roxas even adopted his mentor’s annoying habit of trying to belittle a contrary position by asking mawkishly sarcastic questions. In the process he accused supporters of tax reform of “grandstanding.”