"As a result, there will probably be no reform of the personal income tax."

This strikes me as possibly the most important sentence in Tom Reese's article. It seems to me that most of his rationale for tax reform failing has to do with fear of voter reactiosn, and that reaction is determined by expectations of how people's personal taxes are affected. 

Far fewer people pay attention to the affects of taxation on corporations. And the fact is, Trump and the Republicans are determined more than anything else to lower corporate taxes. Blow black is far less likely. Since Trump and the congress now need a WIN, any WIN, the odds, its seems to me, of a successful reduction of corporate taxes is very likely. 

The argument that lower corporate taxes increase jobs, although repeatedly demonstrated, generatoin after generation, country after country, to be false, is a self evident truth for Trump and the Repubs. Trump's base will be fed and will feast on this delusion. Ergo its a done deal.