Originally Posted by tsquare

I dunno either. There are so many red herrings and straw men flying around about all this it looks like Sharknado meets the Wizard of Oz. And no solutions offered anywhere other than the usual pointless posturing and dALPA bashing.

But.... the way you describe it is very DC-ish. It is an increase, I do not care whether or not it is not as much of an increase as originally planned. Kind of like that whole "I'm gonna take up smoking and then quit. Aren't you proud of me?" kind of discussion. An increase is an increase. Period, and we should not be happy at all about it.