Inside the black box
Inside the black box
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The man who famously said he said he wants to shrink government "to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" is now swimming in government cash.
Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation (ATRF), stridently argues against taxpayer-financed bailouts. Norquist recently signed onto a letter arguing that government spending was hindering economic recovery following the pandemic. "Government spending...is inhibiting the fast recovery we want in jobs and incomes, not stimulating it...runaway government spending is the new virus," Norquist and other conservatives wrote.
Meanwhile, ATRF accepted $150,000 to $350,000 from the government as part of the PPP. "[ATRF]...was badly hurt by the government shutdown. It applied for and received a loan and has as a consequence been able to maintain its employees without laying anyone off," the organization said in a statement. The term "government shutdown" is apparently a reference to stay-at-home orders that were imposed to curb the spread of the pandemic. It's unclear why those actions had any impact on the ATRF, which is a non-profit.
The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), also known as the Center for Advancement of Objectivism, is devoted to the "writings and work of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand." Specifically, it advocates for "rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism." Rand wrote that "the protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of a government." ARI accepted $150,000 to $350,000 from the government as part of the PPP..
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