I saw Casino Jack last night, nice movie with Kevin Spacey, about Jack Abramoff. The movie was entertaining, despite the foul mouths of the main characters, but the Republican corruption was depressing. Grover Norquist figured briefly in the film, involved with Abramoff's dirty money, as one who got away scot free.
But Republican corruption is not what I want to discuss right now. I want to discuss formal pledged and signed Republican disloyalty to American welfare.
Grover Norquist has conned a large number of American lawmakers (nearly all Republican) into signing the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge", which is a promise never to support any proposal which will either increase taxes or reduce deductions. Such a proposal is obviously detrimental to America's welfare, and you can easily see why.
The optimal tax level is something that must change over time, because economic conditions change over time. Further, tax levels should change differently for different types of tax payers, sometimes rising on one type, and lowering for others, and then later changing. Shouldn't congressman be open to whatever was necessary to improve America, as opposed to whatever was necessary to obstruct whatever was necessary to improve America? And surely a major change in America's welfare would strongly motivate a change in the tax policies from those of the Bush Administration?
Ask your congressmen if they have greater loyalty to American welfare than they do to Grover Norquist. If your congressman is on this list, http://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/091411-federalpledgesigners.pdf, please vote them out!
Follow-up: The Washington Post has an interesting set of graphics. Make your own judgements on them. I think we need a straight Democratic ticket in the next election: we need good government, not a pledge to obstruction.
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