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    Grover Norquist on Jobs and Trump's Tax Cuts

    The conservative tax cut advocate spoke to Newsweek about the GOP’s plan, the role of government and why liberals want to make cats fly.
    by Alexander Nazaryan Dec 01, 2017 6 minutes
    Grover Norquist, founder of the taxpayer advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform, in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2012.
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    There are few people who would attempt to explain the Democratic Party’s approach to taxation with an allusion to serial killer Richard Speck. Even fewer could pull it off without clearing the room. To his credit, Grover Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform, managed the feat, reminding the audience for his 30-minute talk at the California Republican convention in mid-October what makes him the most influential proponent of tax cuts in Washington, D.C. Ninety percent of Republicans in Congress have signed his pledge, which binds them to the promise of never voting for a net income tax increase. And while some accuse Norquist of a dogmatic approach that forestalls the possibility of compromise, he is a lively defender of his ideas, skewering tax-happy liberals while energetically promoting his belief that free enterprise can cure all that government can't.

    spoke with Norquist about two weeks before Republicans on the House Committee on Ways and Means released its Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,

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