Grover Norquist, despite what some might construe as recent evidence to the contrary, is nothing if not bullish on the future of his brand of radical anti-tax ideology:
“We are about to have a Tea Party second wave that will dwarf the first wave and that is because while ‘spend too much’ brought the Tea Party into existence, we’re about to walk into ‘spend too much, regulate too much, and tax too much,’ all together. It’s going to be a perfect storm of annoying government behavior, which is devastating to the economy, and I think the small business community which is particularly hit by Obama’s tax increases are going to lead the fight bigger, stronger, tougher than the last Tea Party.”
Yes! And then this will happen.
Relatedly, you should read Tim Noah’s somewhat revisionist account of Norquist’s role in the last two and a half decades of tax fights; Noah takes a rather less impressed view of Norquist’s actual power in the grand scheme of things than do most commentators.
