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Grover Glenn Norquist ist ein konservativer Aktivist und Lobbyist. Er ist Präsident der einflussreichen Interessenvertretung Americans for Tax Reform.

Norquist erhielt den Bachelor of Arts in Ökonomie und den Master of Business Administration an der Harvard University. Er gründete die Lobbygruppe Americans for Tax Reform 1985 auf Betreiben des damaligen US-Präsidenten Ronald Reagan und hat seit 1986 fast allen Kongress-Abgeordneten der Republikanischen Partei das Gelöbnis abgenommen, niemals die Steuern zu erhöhen. Diese Politik führte laut Kritikern zur US-Haushaltskrise 2011. Norquist hält dies nicht für ein Problem, sondern sieht darin eine „Chance für alle Steuerzahler“. Nun sei die Regierung gezwungen, die Ausgaben des Staates deutlich zu reduzieren. Einen möglichen Kompromiss, große Einsparungen mit auch nur minimalen Steuererhöhungen zu verknüpfen, lehnt er strikt ab.Norquist war maßgeblich an der Präsidentschaftskandidatur von George W. Bush im Jahre 2000 beteiligt.Norquist ist Mitglied im Vorstand der National Rifle Association.Er lebt mit seiner Frau und den beiden gemeinsamen Töchtern in Washington, D.C. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Oktober 1956
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“An armed people are a free people. If our forefathers were not armed before the American Revolution we would all be speaking English today.”

Grover Norquist via Twitter, 02 Jan 2016, 23:12 UTC. https://twitter.com/grovernorquist/status/683425783470239744.
2015

“Yeah, the good news about the move to abolish the death tax, the tax where they come and look at how much money you've got when you die, how much gold is in your teeth and they want half of it, is that — you're right, there's an exemption for — I don't know — maybe a million dollars now, and it's scheduled to go up a little bit. However, 70 percent of the American people want to abolish that tax. Congress, the House and Senate, have three times voted to abolish it. The president supports abolishing it, so that tax is going to be abolished. I think it speaks very much to the health of the nation that 70-plus percent of Americans want to abolish the death tax, because they see it as fundamentally unjust. The argument that some who played at the politics of hate and envy and class division will say, 'Yes, well, that's only 2 percent,' or as people get richer 5 percent in the near future of Americans likely to have to pay that tax. I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only a small percentage,' you know. 'I mean, it's not you, it's somebody else.' And this country, people who may not make earning a lot of money the centerpiece of their lives, they may have other things to focus on, they just say it's not just. If you've paid taxes on your income once, the government should leave you alone. Shouldn't come back and try and tax you again.”

interview with NPR's Terry Gross on the program Fresh Air, October 2, 2003.
2003

“[Democrats] will only become acceptable once they are comfortable in their minority status. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate.”

Grover Norquist cited in " The Great Revulsion http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/opinion/10krugman.html?ref=grovergnorquist" at nytimes.com, 10 November, 2006
2004

“I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Interview on NPR's Morning Edition, May 25, 2001 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1123439
2001

“The president was committed; elected on the basis that he was not Romney and Romney was a poopy head.”

Grover Norquist cited in Obama Won by Convincing Voters Romney Was a "Poopy Head." http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/11/12/grover_norquist_calls_mitt_romney_a_poppy_head.html at www.slate.com, (12 November 2012): Referring to the outcome to of the 2012 US Presidential elections
2012

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