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Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist appeared on C-SPAN Washington Journal, hosted by Pedro Echevarria, where he discussed a number of topics, including the continued impact of failed economic policies under President Obama. An excerpt of his comments is below.

If Obama’s economy had grown at Reagan’s pace, since the bottom of the recession, there’d be 10 million more Americans working. The cost of raising taxes, spending- creating new entitlements rather than reforming the ones we have that don’t work as well as we would like them to- is 10 million people out of work today. 10 million Americans don’t have jobs because instead of having lower taxes and less regulations, this administration has had more regulations, more spending, higher taxes, new government programs without reform.

Matt Patterson, executive director of the Center for Worker Freedom, wrote an op-ed in FlashReport detailing the fight of farm workers in California against union bosses and a corrupt labor relations board.

The union’s motivations are clear- a once-powerful force boasting over 50,000 dues paying members, the UFW has lost decertification elections time and time again over the last several decades. Farm workers have decided en masse that the union does little to justify its outrageous dues. Today the UFW claims merely 5,000 members; if they successfully organize Gerawan they will have instantly doubled their membership.  

The Washington Examiner published an editorial featuring the Cost of Government Center’s work surrounding “Cost of Government Day.”

According to the Cost of Government Center (which is part of Americans for Tax Reform), it took the U.S. economy 121 days- roughly the first four months of the year- to produce enough for government to spend at all levels (81 days for federal and 40 days for state and local spending). It took an additional 65 days to produce the resources required to pay for the costs of regulatory compliance at all levels.

Ashley Dobson of Red Alert Politics wrote an article detailing how Cost of Government Day has been pushed later into the calendar year under President Obama.

This was the sixth consecutive year that Cost of Government Day fell in July. Prior to President Barack Obama’s tenure in office, the latest it had fallen was June 27, according to Americans for Tax Reform.

Politico’s Morning Tax Briefing covered a letter sent to Congress by Americans for Tax Reform, along with other conservative organizations, imploring House and Senate committees to avoid short-term fixes in addressing corporate tax reform.

The groups- including the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, Americans for Tax Reform and Americans for Prosperity, among others- write in a letter that will be sent to the leadership of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees today that they want to “strongly caution against the urge to take action on short-term fixes aimed at individual symptoms, rather than the entirety of the tax code. We are specifically concerned about proposals that seek to make changes to our tax laws as a means to pay for projects that are totally unrelated to tax reform. Attempts like these are a step in the wrong direction. Their passage will do nothing to help America’s job creators. In fact, it will make it even more difficult to achieve true tax reform.”