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Hey Big Spenders! Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 PM
Grover Norquist discusses an interesting double standard big spenders apply to their tax-hiking rationale, and how they themselves don't like to put their money where their mouth is:
"When Americans ask to have their tax burden reduced, the politicians bellow, "Show us what 'services' you would cut." When politicians raise taxes, they never bother to tell us what taxpayers will have to go without: less money for the children, the house, retirement. They focus only on the government's needs. Not the people's.
According to the Center for Fiscal Accountability, seven states now have "Tax Me More" accounts, where liberals who support more taxes can send additional money to the government if they believe the state will spend their money more wisely than they will. Hardly anyone does."
The bottom line:
"Big-spending, tax-increasing liberal politicians think they are smarter than we are. If they want to be philanthropists, they are free to do so with their own money, not ours. Just leave us alone."
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