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Grover Norquist Claims Tom Coburn ‘Lied His Way’ Into Office - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

Grover Norquist Claims Tom Coburn ‘Lied His Way’ Into Office - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

Grover Norquist Claims Tom Coburn ‘Lied His Way’ Into Office

Apr. 25 2011 - 6:26 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Tom Coburn is a serious fiscal conservative from Oklahoma. Grover Norquist is an anti-tax evangelist whose special interest group, Americans for Tax Reform, has all but captured the tax and revenue policy apparatus of the Republican Party. The two have been clashing for years, andnow this:

“I think if you go back and look at the commission’s report, what we were talking about is getting significant dynamic effects by taking away tax credits, lowering the tax rate and having an economic increase that will actually increase the revenues to the federal government,” Coburn said. When asked by host David