15 Questions with Grover G. Norquist
6th December 2010
Far be it from me to say good about anything connected with Harvard, but this interview has a lot of meat to it. I especially like Norquist’s take on the ‘rich people for higher taxes’ snowjob:
I’m all in favor of, you know, rich people wanting to contribute money to somebody else. One of the things that’s interesting is none of the rich liberals actually believes in government. Warren Buffett, who says he’s a big liberal who liked Obama, he has millions of dollars. If he thought any of the United States government spent money better than he does, he could make a contribution to the federal government. And he never does. He gives all his money to private charities, because he thinks he can spend his money better than the government can, but he wants everybody else to have higher taxes because he thinks the government can spend your money better than you can. This is not an endorsement of government. It’s an expression of contempt for you.