I feel very strongly that I'm not paid to make political judgments and wouldn't be able to make them anyway. I'm paid to come up with what I think are the best forms of taxation, or policies more generally, from a normative and efficiency point of view.
If one starts compromising one's advice by what one thinks is politically feasible, we wouldn't, for example, have signed the free trade agreement with the U.S. and we wouldn't have a GST, among other things. I can honestly say that I don't think that's my job. I think it's your job.