Grover Norquist: Trying To Stop Billionaires From Dodging Taxes Makes You A Nazi

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/21/487465/norquist-billionaire-taxes-nazis/

Grover Norquist: Trying To Stop Billionaires From Dodging Taxes Makes You A Nazi

By Pat Garofalo on May 21, 2012 at 9:35 am


After Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin avoided some $67 million in taxes by renouncing his American citizenship shortly before the company made its initial public offering, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced the “Ex-Patriot” Act. The bill would make former citizens subject to the capital gains tax on U.S. investments and bar those who renounce citizenship for tax purposes from reentering the country.

To American for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, Schumer and Casey’s effort is akin to Nazism or South African apartheid, as The Hill reports:

“I think Schumer can probably find the legislation to do this. It existed in Germany in the 1930s and Rhodesia in the ’70s and in South Africa as well,” said Norquist. “He probably just plagiarized it and translated it from the original German.”

The Nazis infamously implemented a departure tax on Jews who tried to flee Germany before World War II. Schumer is Jewish.

“There’s already a law in the books George, but this is outrageous,” said Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), referencing Saverin’s tax avoidance. “If it’s necessary, sure I would support {the Ex-Patriot Act}.” In the last few months, several House Republicans have broken with Norquist and the Americans for Tax Reform anti-tax pledge, which says that signers will never agree to any tax increase, for any reason.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. The rich created this worldwide disaster. The rich have no country, no allegiance, and feel they

can take and never give back.

[TBF]

10. And so far they've gotten away with that rather nicely. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

13. Yes, thanks to the right wingnuts, who would die defending their cheating asses. nt

[beac]

2. Hey Norquist, here's a law you really should familiarize yourself with:

Godwin's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law, for any lurking freepers).

Too bad there isn't an ASSHOLE Act (Any Stupid Shill Hawking Overtaxed Lies Exits).

[Lawlbringer]

3. Weren't the Nazis and Fascists pretty

friendly with businesses?

I always thought Nazis were far right, while Communists were far left.

[ananda]

6. Actually, the terms are misleading.

Both Nazis and Communists were technically socialist.. in theory or name..
but fascist and totalitarian in practice.

Reminds me a bit of what America is becoming.... though our euphemisms
are "freedom and democracy."

[kestrel91316]

7. The only thing the least bit "socialist" about Nazis was

their name. They were corporatist fascists to the core.

[TBF]

11. Communists traditionally are far left -

Traditional view:




These days you'll also see if framed as a cube (which may be more accurate, in which case you could be a liberal communist or an authoritarian communist):

[Octafish]

17. You got Mike Gravel in the wrong place.

Sen. Gravel stood up to the Military Industrial Complex. So he stands near me in the Green Cube.

Sen. Mike Gravel read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record.

[TBF]

21. That could well be -

I just snagged the image from Google because a lot of folks seem to like that political compass these days. I'm in the green cube as well when I take the test.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Grover Norquist wants to call who a Nazi, he is Nazi number one, his followers salute him everyday.

He is reich wing all the way and the wimps who sign his pledge has pledged alliegence to the Nazi leader. I wonder if we could get Grover to go away and avoid taxes here and give up his citizenship to show how committed he is to avoiding taxes in the US. By the way, grab Rush on your way out, he was supposed to go to Costa Rica, they probably refused him.

[Initech]

8. Ah Nazi tourettes strikes again!

[Bake]

9. Ahh, Grover, showing your true colors (again)!

Grover never saw a tax on a rich person he couldn't compare to Nazism.

Bake

[hifiguy]

12. Norquist is one of the most vile human beings

drawing breath on this planet. He continues to fill a desparately needed void.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. When they start pulling out the nazi card, it means they've got very little else left

Norquist is starting to see a revolt among his thralls in Congress who don't want to sign his pledge. He also knows the worldwide trend is shifting towards stimulus and higher taxes and away from austerity. He's desperate and losing his grip.

[Johonny]

15. I'll be honest, I have no idea what he is talking about

to even make fun of it. He throws a bunch of scary sounding things on a board and pretends they somehow have some common ground that makes the listener go "I got it". But they don't. Why is this guy considered a leader of anything?

[spanone]

16. norquist is a stain in the underwear of democracy

[abolugi]

18. Throw out the red meat, Grover

its all you got left.People are getting wise to you!

[11 Bravo]

19. Someone needs to take a cold chisel to that fucking little garden gnome.

[hifiguy]

22. Use the Big Hammer!

[HiPointDem]

20. money must be free. people, not so much.