(Community Matters) when I learned Texas Republican legislators didn’t want to tap the rainy day fund to help close the budget gap, I thought . . . that’s ridiculous. Talking with my dear friend Steve Adler, I gained perspective.
When the objective is to shrink government, you don’t find ways to fund existing programs, you find excuses to cut them.
Grover Norquist (president of Americans for Tax Reform) said, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
Norquist was an early George W. Bush for president supporter – in fact, according to Wikipedia, he’s widely credited with securing his support from conservatives. He was also instrumental in crafting the Bush tax cuts.
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