Martin Luther Norquist

[marmar]

from OurFuture.org:



Martin Luther Norquist
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on September 13, 2007 - 3:15pm.


Want to raise the top marginal income tax rate? Shame on you. Grover Norquist tells it on the mountain:


In the 1950s it was considered by too many acceptable for the state to discriminate against gays and African Americans. Now it is not. Back in those bad old days it was considered politically acceptable to target "the rich" and treat them differently than others. We are slowly moving away from tolerating discrimination based on economics just as we now reject discrimination based on race or sexual orientation. The drive for a single-rate, flat-rate income tax is the moral equivalent of the 1960s civil rights movement which rejected different laws for whites and blacks. Everyone should be equal before the law. The state must treat us without discrimination....

George Wallace and Strom Thurmond recanted. Someday those who would promote hatred and discrimination based on income, wealth, or property ownership will do so also. We are making progress but it does discomfort those who were so used to their prejudices being recognized in law.

As the ownership society grows and deepens ... we are all Kulaks now.


The quote comes from a debate Norquist is having with Jonathan Chait, whose new book on the bamboozlements of conservative economic policy, marred only by a deficiency in the originality of the title (just kidding: Jon and I both coincidentally came up with the "Big Con" name for our projects at around the same time), should be bought and read by everyone.

We shall overcome.

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/martin_luther_norquist?tx=3

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1. cry. me. a. fvcking. river.

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played for you by the No Pity Orchestra.

Martin Luther Norquist, tirelessly working to make sure that the man who owns the River Oaks swankienda pays the same tax rate as the man who mows the immaculate lawn and the woman who scrubs the gold-encrusted toilets. :mad:

"I have a dream... that the chauffeur should bear the road tax burden, that the gardener should bear the property tax burden, that the family of the soldier should bear the war tax burden, and that the undocumented nanny who sends her pay overseas to support her children should bear the school tax burden. And when we have successfully shifted the tax burden to those least able to afford it, we, the entitled silver spooners, can finally proclaim FREE AT LAST.... FREE AT LAST... THANK BU$H ALMIGHTY WE'RE FREE AT LAST!"

[Warpy]

2. Benedict Arnold Norquist.

By targeting subsistence income instead of discretionary income and by applying pressure to hold wages down, there has been a massive discriminatory war against anyone who works for a living and keeps this country running, combined with an even more massive program to coddle the parasitic rich.

I, for one, am sick of it. Norquist should be first against the wall, come the revolution.

[madrchsod]

3. norquist is a con man

just ask the folks in my town....even the majority of the illinois house and senate republicans told him to take a hike

[Carrieyazel]

4. I heard this slime used to be called Grosser Nosetwist!!!!

iT'S hilarious isn't it.

[JVS]

5. Death to Kulaks! They must be liquidated as a class!

As true today as it was in the 1920s