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Fox guest Michelle Malkin links Grover Norquist to Boston Marathon bombing
During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday night, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin alleged that influential anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist was indirectly linked to the Boston Marathon bombing. “I think of course political correctness has always been the handmaiden of terrorism, on top of that political pandering, and unfortunately neither…
How Turbo Tax killed free and simple tax filing
By Liz Day, ProPublica This story was co-produced with NPR. Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes 2014 and for free. You’d open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any needed changes and be done. The miserable annual IRS shuffle, gone. It’s already…
Norquist: Republicans who raise taxes ‘are rat heads in a Coke bottle’
Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist is lashing out at Republicans who voted to raise taxes, calling them “rat heads in a coke bottle.” Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, the Americans for Tax Reform founder employed an unusual metaphor to blast Republicans who violated their pledge to…
Mitchell schools Norquist: You’re ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to claim GOP didn’t hike taxes
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday told anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist that he was living in an “Alice in Wonderland world” after he claimed that Republican lawmakers had not violated the no-tax pledge by voting in favor of a fiscal cliff compromise that hiked taxes on the richest Americans. “Why…
Norquist: Fiscal cliff deal will cut taxes instead of raising them
Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist on Monday insisted that Republicans in Congress would hold the debt ceiling hostage to ensure that there would be no tax increases on even the wealthiest Americans as part of a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. During an interview with the founder of Americans…
Norquist: Obama might ‘blow up small countries’ for fun
Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist says that President Barack Obama will have to “blow up small countries” because Republicans will not let him have “any fun at all” spending taxpayers’ money. “Obama will be on a very short leash, fiscally speaking, over the next four years,” Norquist told C-SPAN on Thursday.…
Conan’s ‘Grover’ Norquist threatens to ‘fu*k’ Elmo if Republicans raise taxes
In a bit of political satire published online Thursday by late night talk show host Conan O’Brien, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist gets “melded” with his Muppet analogue from the PBS kids’ show “Sesame Street,” and the results are both downright creepy and absolutely hilarious. This video is from TeamCoco.com, published…
Alan Simpson hopes Norquist drowns in a bathtub
During a discussion on the looming fiscal cliff, former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY) joked that he hoped anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist drown in a bathtub. Near the end of an interview with MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Simpson said that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had trouble negotiating a budget deal…
Norquist: I hope Peter King’s wife knows commitments last ‘longer than two years’
Conservative anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist took a potshot at Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) marriage in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan Monday night while accusing him of trying to “weasel out” of the pledge to not raise taxes signed by many GOP lawmakers. “The pledge is not for life,” Norquist…
Grover Norquist confident Republicans will abide by no tax pledge
Democrats have welcomed what they say are the first cracks in the Republican party’s long-standing opposition to any tax rises, which Barack Obama has insisted must be part of a deal to resolve the fiscal cliff crisis. But anti-tax campaigner Grover Norquist, a key figure in the negotiations, predicted that…
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