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Health insurers and businesses are already feeling the iron-clad grip of regulations in #Obamacare: http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell Signs Largest Tax Hike in Virginia History into Law http://t.co/Qd6KOFfaPv
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Under #Obamacare, mothers have had a tougher time purchasing non-prescription, over-the-counter medicine: http://t.co/dJuaGAT9LE
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9 out of 20 #Obamacare tax hikes have not even been implemented yet: http://t.co/opFkyf1guJ
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.@GroverNorquist on MFA: "[The Senate] didn't ask all of the questions that needed to be asked": http://t.co/wXfkIR2Ca9 #NoNetTax
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"When architects of #Obamacare are worried about it creating a trainwreck, you know something's gone terribly wrong": http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
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Conservative and Free Market Groups Applaud Move to Delay a Vote on Gina McCarthy: http://t.co/lNQYmJAB12 #EPA
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The #Obamacare train wreck will derail the American economy: http://t.co/opFkyf1guJ
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Former Obama Czar Attacks Grover Norquist and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
Van Jones rants to a Campus Progress group about Grover Norquist and The Pledge.
When speaking to a Campus Progress group Wednesday, former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones went on a rant against the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. “You got folks up here in Washington D.C. that have signed a pledge to a man named Grover Norquist that they will never increase America’s tax revenues no matter what happens in our country,” Jones shouted. “I’m not making this up.”
After the meeting, Jones spoke with Kerry Pickett from the Washington Times. “There’s nothing wrong with having an orientation that you are reluctant to raise taxes,” Jones said. “The problem is, when you surrender your judgment as an elected official… to a single individual and sign a separate loyalty pledge away from the U.S. Constitution… I think that’s wrong.”
The Taxpayer Protection Pledge is a promise made to the constituents of elected officials. After signing the pledge, officials are committed to both oppose any tax rate increase, and oppose any reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by reducing tax rates.
“The pledge is a pledge to [lawmakers'] constituents that they won't raise taxes. I am not part of that equation,” Norquist has explained.
ATR asks every candidate for elected office on the state and federal level to make this written commitment to their constituents.
“Raising taxes is what politicians do when they don’t have the strength to actually govern,” Norquist said. “The Pledge has grown in importance as one of the few black-and-white, yes or no, answers that politicians are forced to give to voters before they ask for their vote.”
