His allies don’t understand anything
You all remember anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist, don’t you? The guy who said they wanted to made government so small you can drown it in the bathtub? He hasn’t had much to say the last half decade but suddenly his issue is front and center. Unfortunately, today’s Republicans don’t understand what they’re supposed to be doing because they are very deluded and very stupid. And he’s upset:
As part of his deal to become House speaker, Kevin McCarthy reportedly promised his party’s conservative hardliners a vote on legislation that would scrap the entire American tax code and replace it with a jumbo-sized national sales tax.
The assurance got relatively little attention at the time, drowned out by the many other concessions McCarthy made to win his gavel. But with Democrats already attacking the proposal, some conservatives see it as a political headache in the making.
“This is a political gift to Biden and the Democrats,” Grover Norquist, the dean of D.C. anti-tax activists, said in an interview. “I think that this is the first significant problem created for the Republican Party by the 20 people who thought that there was no downside to the approach they took.”
Yeah, it’s hardly the first problem they’ve caused or the last. But for Grover, it’s all that matters.
I don’t think any of these new MAGA Reps even know who Grover Norquist is much less care about what he has to say. He might as well be … George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Those ancient saints are completely irrelevant to the new breed. Yes, they want to slash spending and cut taxes. But their goal is to own the libs and install fellow conspiracy nuts in power so they can defeat the forces of diversity, tolerance, science, logic and knowledge. Their enemies. They are not driven by ideology, they are driven by primitive emotion. And they are real live Know-Nothings. They are ignorant and proud of it.
Not that Grover really cares, as long as they go along with his program. But he knows that proposing a 35% national sales tax and eliminating all other taxes is politically suicidal. Will they listen to him? Doubtful. They are very, very sure of themselves.