Amelia
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Threatening how? Something illegal going on? I don't think that's the case.
Sorry but I agree with his position and I guarantee you that it is not the case that the "majority of their constituents want them...(to raise taxes)" in every Congressional district. Raising tax rates is a bad idea. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. I'm all for eliminating loopholes and flattening the tax rates but I basically agree with Norquist.
Will you answer the question I originally posed?
Probably not. Or probably not in a way you would appreciate. I've rarely found it profitable to try to discuss things with people who say things like, "Since you object to a person who is against A, I assume you are for B" ... as if there are not infinitely many other possibilities. You really had way too little to go on to make an assumption like that and yet you jumped right in with it.
Okay, fine, do you want to see tax rates raised or not?
I want the option to be on the table.
For example, I want people to be free and willing to close loopholes without having to hold out for a reduction in the marginal rate to offset the effect of patching that hole.
I especially don't want Republicans to appear narrow-minded and heartless and seem to care more about keeping an oath to an eccentric then they do about keeping promises to old people who have paid into the system for decades. Their arguments about fixing a broken and unsustainable system are lost because they lost the PR war when they allowed themselves to look like Norquist's reactionary pawns.