"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." - Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
For decades, Reaganite movement conservatives have repeated their mantra of "lower taxes, lower spending" ad naseum, possibly in the hope that if they repeat it enough, it will become true. But is it? Does cutting taxes truly "starve the Beast"? Are Democrats just a bunch of "tax and spend" liberals? Is Congress unable to be trusted with your money?
According to the chairman of the conservative Cato Institute, the data says otherwise.
::More debunking of GOP spin on the flip.::
Factoid #1: Americans for Tax Reform was a front organization formed inside the Reagan White House to create an astroturf group to build support for Reagan's 1986 tax reform legislation. Grover Norquist, former head of the College Republicans, was chosen to head the project.
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