Grover Norquist, the anti-tax advocate who has the devotion of most Congressional Republicans, isn’t ready to pledge his support to the 9-9-9 plan of Republican Presidential candidate, Herman Cain. Norquist told ABC’s “Top Line” on Monday the 9-9-9 plan is “very dangerous,” because each of the 9 percent taxes he’s proposing could easily grow larger.
“I’m very concerned about three different taxes — every one of them can grow. To put tapeworms in your tummy to try and maintain your weight — they may have their own idea about their growth patterns and what they want to do. Creating new taxes is a very dangerous project,” Norquist said.
Norquist, whose group Americans for Tax Reform held America hostage during the debt deal crisis because of the anti-tax pledge Republicans signed, doesn’t think the 9-9-9 plan violates his group’s pledge, which Cain has signed, but he said that’s not possible to know for sure since “it’s not clearly written down, it hasn’t been scored by CBO. Cain has taken the pledge, he understands what that’s about. The question is about the structure of the tax rather than the total burden,” he said. “It doesn’t create new possibilities for growth,” Norquist added.
The most powerful anti-tax conservative in America isn’t exactly endorsing Herman Cain’s plan. I’d say that’s pretty damaging to the Cain campaign. Another Republican candidate bites the dust.
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