Norquist: Letting the Payroll Tax cut expire is NOT a tax hike. Letting the Bush Tax Cut expire IS.

[DonRedwood]

So let me see if I understand this correctly. Grover Norquist says that letting the TEMPORARY Payroll Tax expire--(which pretty much just effects the middle class and the poor)-- is NOT a tax hike. It is not raising taxes on the middle class or the poor, it is just making them pay their fair share of taxes without that unfair TEMPORARY tax cut.

OK...so I'm clear on what Norquist thinks.

But then, why is ihe now saying that the TEMPORARY Bush Tax Cuts are about to expire and that IS a tax hike.

Ah, poor people, middle class lose a tax cut and that is NOT a tax hike. Rich people lose a tax cut and that is raising taxes.

SO, in the end, with Grover's pledge, shouldn't it be reworded to say: NO TAX HIKES FOR THE RICH, NO TAX CUTS FOR THE POOR?

Either way, Grover Norquist is not America. Our elected officials do not work for him. I personally believe that if you sign something like Norquist's Pledge that you disqualify yourself to run for office. You have already sworn, by signing your name to Grover, that your allegiance is not to the United States as required by the oath of office. By signing you've given allegiance to an independent person who is making up his own rules like a demagogue.

PLEASE feel free to copy and share the meme! :0)

[aquart]

1. Why is anyone listening to that treasonous slimebot?

[BeyondGeography]

2. Squirm, you bastard

Because you are fucking done.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Re-read what you wrote ...

it makes you sound ignorant.

[Chunk]

5. Care to point it out?

I must be ignorant?

[DonRedwood]

6. Yeah, I'm a little confused myself... wrong, possibly/probably. Ignorant? Not sure how I could

educate myself more.

I read a Dec. interview of Norquist where he was saying that letting the payroll tax expire was NOT a tax raise. Then I watched and interview of him where he says letting the bush cuts expire IS a tax hike.

How can I be ignorant when I am using his own words to argue his own words?

[DonRedwood]

8. AND, aside for standing up for my mental ability, welcome to DU!

[DonRedwood]

9. "re-read what you wrote...it makes you sound ignorant"...dude, that's a little harsh for no reason

I might be wrong, but I'm not ignorant.

[DonRedwood]

12. ...

or just say "there's a typo" or something constructive.

[Marr]

13. Failing to explain your point after a remark like that makes you like a fool.

[DonRedwood]

14. It did make me proofread and fine tune...

I guess that never hurts...

[librechik]

4. Lil Grover Norquist is 5 feet 3 inches tall

Just sayin--he's almost small enough to drown in my bathtub, if i left him alone in there with his toys.

[DonRedwood]

10. you think he has a Napoleon Complex? might be why he is such a bully and so full of himself

[librechik]

15. I'm no psychiatrist, but Cosmopolitian mag would probably say he has short man

syndrome--and he certainly is having an emperor's influence on national affairs.

[spanone]

7. this asshole needs purging from american politics....pronto

[DonRedwood]

16. i sure do agree

[Scuba]

11. That guy? He is sooooo 2010.

[Auntie Bush]

17. And the ReThugs say they're the ones who are patriotic!

Yet they sign their allegiance to Grover...not the USA or the constitution. We need a bill saying pledges like this are unconstitutional.

[DonRedwood]

18. yes please!