Norquist: GOP Voters Won’t Reject A Deal With ‘De Minimis’ Tax Increases
Source: TPM
BRIAN BEUTLER NOVEMBER 28, 2012, 10:22 AM
For the first time in the current budget fight, anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist, acknowledged that GOP primary voters wont rebel against Republicans who cut a deal to avoid automatic tax increases and spending cuts, even if it increases tax revenues above their current level.
If a deal is bad, if it isnt the spending you thought, if the taxes are not de minimis or evening out or something, and people look at it and go, that is a massive tax increase and no spending cuts, that would be very bad, Norquist said at a breakfast roundtable Wednesday hosted by Politico.
Norquist didnt stipulate what would constitute de minimis taxes. But he argued that Republicans could get the better end of any bargain, without detonating the ticking austerity bomb, by publicly defining their terms, and contrasting them with Obamas call for raising tax rates on top earners. If that bargain included de minimis new taxes, Norquist suggested, it could pass muster with the voters to whom Republicans elected officials have pledged not to raise taxes.
However, Norquist also suggested that voting for legislation to passively allow the Bush tax cuts for high earners to expire wouldnt satisfy the pledge. Norquist criticized conservative Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), who has encouraged House Republicans to accept President Obamas terms, extend middle income tax rates, and continue the fight over tax cuts for the top two percent down the road.
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loyalkydem
(1,678 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)It would their pledge to the country.... which should come before yours.
Besides, Norquist has been wrong about everything for decades now... like everyone who advocated the Laffer Curve. Who cares what he thinks?
Thav
(946 posts)Who the fuck is Norquist and why the fuck does he have so much sway over what congress does? Norquist doesn't represent any other citizens in the US other than himself. "You need to sign this tax pledge." "Are you one of my constituitents?" "No." "Go fuck yourself"
Seriously, if one person has so much power over congress without a check or balance, that person has to go.
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)and getting away with it.
He needs to be arrested for sedition against the United States of America and sentenced to life in prison with no privileges granted, in a 6x6 isolation cell. Nothing but water and gruel.
LeftInTX
(25,258 posts)I'm sure there is at least some sort of bribery or fraud hidden his closet.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)EVER elected Grover Norquist?
Tutonic
(2,522 posts)n/t
Squinch
(50,949 posts)OWNS the Republicans is thinking.
He may be the best proof of just how stupid the average Republican congressperson is. He is not elected, he has no authority whatsoever, and they have all just laid all their power at his feet.
And he IS really creepy looking.