While this is highly unlikely to be news to anyone in the know in Washington, it is certainly interesting to read that Grover Norquist, whose supposed anti-government creed is doing so much to drive U.S. tax policy these days, is a man who sells access to his friends in government for cold hard cash. See Lou DuBose's recent Texas Observer article, K Street Croupiers.
Grover, if you are out there, at what point do the means become the ends?
And this is even leaving aside the point that, as I have argued in a number of places, such as in Cato's Regulation Magazine, Grover's tax-cutting policy actually makes government bigger over time by increasing redistribution from younger to older generations and creating such instability that people must continually lobby over absolutely everything.
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