I’m not weeping over Max Baucus’ retirement.  Baucus was a corporate mouthpiece who screwed workers left and right — from voting for bad trade deals to pimping for every corporate tax break that drained the Treasury of billions of dollars.

BUT…he’s likely to leave a bad mark on his way out the door:

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s decision not to seek reelection could give a jolt to efforts to simplify the tax code — an endeavor he can now devote himself to without the nagging concerns of how it will play back home.

“There will be a renewed effort on tax reform,” Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on Finance, said in an interview Tuesday. “I think Max will pour everything he has into it now and so will I.”