Conservative supporters of immigration reform are reportedly coordinating their talking points to marginalize Republicans who say the Boston bombings are reason to rethink proposals for more lax immigration laws.
A House bill would bar the IRS from offering taxpayers software that would compete with programs like TurboTax. Tax activist Grover Norquist and others wrote a letter to members of Congress that urged them to support the bill — what they called a "pro-taxpayer, anti-IRS power grab legislation." At issue is how Americans file their taxes and whether electronic filing can be offered directly through the IRS.
With Democrats having more leverage on taxes in the 2012 fiscal cliff fight, Norquist's power has become not a Democratic fantasy so much as a GOP nightmare.
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The former Wyoming senator sure was pretty excited for a man his age on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews on Tuesday evening.
America's biggest anti-tax advocate has gotten the vast majority of congressional Republicans to sign his pledge to never raise taxes. But with the fiscal cliff looming, some influential Republicans are suddenly offering to break the pledge. Here's why.
On Twitter this morning, we woke up to the "news" of Grover Norquist using a kindergarten term. But to be clear, the Republican tax puppetmaster was paraphrasing, trying to make a point that immature Democrats were calling his candidate a "poopy head."
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Conservatives like anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist and agree with him on principle, but they do not like the idea of Democrats using him in powerful attack ads.
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House Speaker John Boehner appeared flummoxed when he was asked about anti-tax activist Grover Norquist's influence on his party, waiting five seconds before answering, "It's not often I'm asked about some random person."
Did the anti-tax crusader really open the door to letting the Bush tax cuts expire?
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