Discussion: Louisiana GOPers to Grover Norquist: Give Us a Break on Taxes

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Shouldn’t a person have some kind of success at the job they want to use to say they are qualified for another job. Booby has no successes governing anything.

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Federal and state constitutions provide legislatures with the power and responsibility to fund government through the levying of taxes and fees and individual legislators swear to uphold their respective constitutions when they take ofice. But rather than follow their sworn oath of duty, they have to ask Grover, who has never been elected to anything, for permission to raise taxes. Yet progressives are accused of being traitors for wanting to have reasonable limits to the second amendment because they are not following the constitution. It begs the question of who are the real traitors?

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This is the model for the New Confederacy: drastic cuts to higher education to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, while Creationist twaddle is taught in Louisiana schools.

The big difference between 2015 and 1860 is that today’s Republican Party will make sure that the New Confederacy model is applied to states outside of the deep South, like Kansas and Wisconsin.

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So, the elected representatives of the people of Louisiana have to get Grover Norquist’s permission to do their jobs? And when they raise their hands during legislative sessions, do they have to indicate whether it’s “number one” or “number two?”

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Ha! Grover Norquist assumes the GOP’s cheat and retreat posture on “Read My Lips”.

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No it doesn’t. It might raise the question, except that it’s fatuous hyperbole to use traitors in this context at all.

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The citizens of Louisiana vote for their elected officials. Once elected, some legislators sign a tax pledge which discounts their accountability to the voters and deem themselves beholden to one single individual, i.e. Grover Norquist?? Madness!!!

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Now Louisiana’s GOTP voters should know who’s actually running ruining their party and their state.

Somehow those died-in-the wool rednecks will still manage to blame Obama and the Democrats, not Norquist and the Kochs.

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Thank goodness for the grammar police, but you are right when the right calls the left traitors for wishing to reign in the number of guns in this country they are being more than a bit hyperbolic.

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Just raise taxes on everyone making less than $25,000 a year. Charge them for flushing their toilets, brushing their teeth, breathing. Get it over with now, we all know that’s what’s coming, quit being coy.

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Or, legislators could ask Grover WTF he’s talking about, overspending. They barely eke out Mississippi in every category, for crying out loud. If they cut education any deeper, it would eat into their football budget, and Crimson Tide would roll right over LSU every time.

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I’m still trying to figure out why anyone cares what Norquist says? Is it some kind of rating like the NRA gives out? “This guy bled his constituency dry so he gets an A+!” Disgusting.

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[quote=“thefranklink, post:13, topic:22399”]
Is it some kind of rating like the NRA gives out? “This guy bled his constituency dry so he gets an A+!” Disgusting.
[/quote]Well, that’s exactly it.

They have to pledge to him or else not get nominated, because of NRA-like back room pressure and money. Then he owns them.

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Jindal and Nordquist are human filth, Jindal is going nowhere. Why doesn’t Grover ever talk about his crusade against ‘potty mouth’? That seems to be an underlying mental problem linked to his whole degenerate diseased ‘anti-tax’ personality disorder. Just absolute human excrement, both of them.

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Arguments are more forceful when good grammar is used: rein, as in those things on horses. :slight_smile:

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“I pledge allegiance, to Grover Norquist , , ,”

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Add that he will listen to an unelected hack before he will do what is right for his constituents. Every move seems to be to prove he does not have what it takes to be POTUS. Therefore all anyone can say is he is in it for the money the rubes will provide during a campaign, that also happens to be tax free.

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Why not just drown Grover Norquist in a bathtub? (I’m KIDDING, I’m KIDDING…)

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All good Pubbies know that Dick Cheney, former Pubbie Vice-President of the United States of Amurka, said that deficits don’t matter. Therefore if Louisiana is $1,600,000,000 short of balancing their state budget, it doesn’t matter. Gentlemen, proceed on current course.

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