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A conversation with Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, a group that advocates smaller government through lower taxes and reduced spending. He is credited with helping to build a Conservative Coalition and to win support for the Bush's tax cuts.
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Fran6359 09/03/2012 11:19 PM Report
This guy back in 2005 claims that in his grab bag of stuff on his Christmas wish was getting rid of farm subsidies. Fast forward and this guy is claiming that to get rid of farm subsidies would be an effective tax hike on farmers. What a dufus. Charlie tossed him some pretty luke warm softballs here.
MOCMOC 12/01/2011 02:32 AM Report
I researched Grover Norquist on the web and discovered an article written by Frank Gaffney "A Troubling Influence," about the extensive ties that Grover Norquist has with radical Islamic elements.
This information has been known for some time and yet the media has not confronted him with it. He is holding the republican congress hostage to his pledge with a threat that anyone who deviates will pay for it - he will "educate" the public on them with is billions. He has created the gridlock and the "party of NO" in congress. If he were exposed he couldn't get away with it. What's wrong with the media??! I think this is a dangerous man. You also did not mention it.
He is co-founder of the Islamic Institute and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, both of which were recipients of donations by two companies belonging to the SAAR Network with alleged ties to terrorism for one thing - and other things that should raise a red flag. We should think about what his real agenda might be.
Cameron L. Stewart 07/13/2008 07:14 PM Report
Grover Norquist stands as one among a long line of Republicans, proving that the phrases "conservative republican" and "intelligent public policy making" in the same sentence are an oxymoron. If you are going to talk about tax reduction you also need to be specific about who benefits the most. Typically, when Republicans say "tax reduction", they mean tax reduction primarily for the wealthy and for large corporations. A gap then emerges between revenues and expenditures and it is made up by passing on huge amounts of debt to future generations. In the process the disparity between rich and poor grows while the numbers of the middle class shrink because the trickle down benefit never emerges. Even George Bush I -who Norquists vilifies- called it for what it is: Voodoo economics. Secondly, the purpose of government is to provide infrastructure that the free market cannot otherwise provide. This includes prudent regulation to prevent free markets from engaging in overspeculation, overproduction, or activity that is otherwise not in the public interest. Instead, Republicans will cut out all infrastructure expenditures, eliminate regulation safeguards to protect the public, trivialize and dumb down the public policy debate, and at the same time increase the Defense budget. Sustainability issues like energy, water, industrial metal supplies, climate change and the environment are off the radar screen because conservatives are too busy talking about guns, abortion, and gay marriage. Charlie did his best to get Grover Norquist to move beyond his one note, tax reduction fundamentalism soap box. But that effort assumed the intellect is there on the part of a conservative to support such a two way conversation. Then, at the end of the conversation, we see that Newt Gingrich is Grover Norquist's hero: "If only the bad guy liberals hadn't shot Newt with so many arrows then he might still be a viable candidate for president". (Sigh!!)