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Jon Stewart challenges Grover Norquist on ‘absolutist’ anti-tax pledge
Daily Show host Jon Stewart debated Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist on Monday night, questioning whether his influential pledge was realistic. Nearly every Republican in Congress has signed Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge, vowing to oppose any and all tax increases. Only 14 Republican members of 112th Congress have…
Norquist: I came up with anti-tax pledge when I was 12
Tuesday night on The Daily Show, Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist said he came up with his influential anti-tax pledge when he was in the seventh grade. “My team is winning,” he told the Daily Show’s Samantha Bee. “Your team is winning?” she responded. “It’s like you came…
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