John Irons, Director of Tax and Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress has released the following statement on "first impressions" of the President's Tax Reform Panel recommendations to the Treasure Department. Overall, Irons shares the concerns of many other experts in that the recommendations of the panel, while a good starting point, run the risk of being "cherry-picked for those components that fit this administration’s narrow, ideological goals; and the hard choices that the commission had to make to achieve revenue and distribution neutrality may simply be ignored."