Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. The "dance" we see in Washington as our nation approaches the "fiscal cliff" as defined by Ben Bernancke of the so-called federal reserve, is only part of the story. The anti-tax strategist Grover Norquist, president and founder of Americans for Tax Reform sayas that “This is just the first act of a two- or three-act play.”
We also see that the Obamas’ have 54 Christmas trees inside the White House this year. This is almost 50% more Christmas trees than last year. I believe it was during the most recent campaign that Mr. Obama whispered a reminder to the Russians that he had to be careful until Nov. 6, when a victory would give him more “flexibility” ... on the path to socialism.
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Let this notification serve as your invitation. After reading this you will want to be sure and locate your pitchfork for the coming march on Washington, D.C. and other towns near you.
"[....] the first act “is to get congressional Republicans to put their fingerprints on what amounts to a minor tax increase.”
“After raising taxes on the rich a little bit, the Democrats will come back for serious tax revenue,” he said.
“In acts two and three, the Democrats will come back for the real money – an energy tax and a value-added tax that will impact everybody, especially the middle class.”
Norquist insisted Democrats in Congress and the establishment press are playing an elaborate game designed to blame Republicans for budget deficits and keep serious discussion of spending cuts and entitlement reform off the table.
“Congressional Democrats know raising taxes on the rich will not produce enough tax revenue to reduce significantly the trillion-dollar annual budget deficits being run by the Obama White House,” he said.
“The reason the Democrats scream ‘tax the rich, tax the rich,’ is because they are going to pivot very soon to place a 3 trillion-dollar tax increase on the middle class, and they want ringing in the public’s ears that there wouldn’t have had to do this if the Republicans in Congress had acted right away to place a decent size tax on the rich.”
Norquist believes the Democrat strategy risks a tax revolt.
[....] At the center of criticism is the anti-tax pledge that Norquist has persuaded 95 percent of Republican lawmakers to sign.
“Attacking me and the anti-tax pledge is the same old tactic the Democrats used two years ago in the debate over the debt ceiling,” he said.
The difference this time, however, is that Democrats “have no intention, whatsoever, in seriously talking about spending restraint.”
[....] Congress will not raise taxes to avoid going over the fiscal cliff, because the Republican majority in the House is the last line of defense.
[....] “The Republicans in House of Representatives are survivors,” he said. “The Democrats have already thrown at them everything you can imagine, and the Republicans in the House are still a majority, serving in districts that will not be redrawn for another 10 years. The Republicans in the House can defend themselves against everything the Democrats throw against them.”
Norquist suggested in the final analysis, the House Republicans could simply pass the plan proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., proving to the American public that federal budget deficits can be reduced without raising taxes on the rich.
The Ryan plan was passed by the House April 15 by a vote of 235 to 193, with no votes from Democrats. The Democrat-controlled Senate voted it down a month later, 57–40. The bill sought to reduce the 10-year federal deficit by capping discretionary spending and dismantling Obamacare."
