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- Birth nameGrover Glenn Norquist
- Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan's request. He has authored four books: Rock the House; Leave Us Alone - Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives; Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future (with co-author John Lott) and End the IRS Before it Ends Us - How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy America. Mr. Norquist holds an MBA and a BA in Economics, both from Harvard University. He resides in Washington D.C. with his family.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Excerpt from official biography for Americans for Tax Reform
- Grover Norquist is an American political activist and tax reduction advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases. A Republican, he is the primary promoter of the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge", a pledge signed by lawmakers who agree to oppose increases in marginal income tax rates for individuals and businesses, as well as net reductions or eliminations of deductions and credits without a matching reduced tax rate. Prior to the November 2012 election, the pledge was signed by 95% of all Republican members of Congress and all but one of the candidates running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- President, Americans for Tax Reform.
- Founder, Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
- Holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
- Former Board Member, National Rifle Association.
- Contributing editor, American Spectator.
- 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.
- [on the lack of GOP support for Stephen Bannon's proposal to raise taxes on the rich] It's embarrassing when you ask somebody about a very silly idea they put forward. It's up there with "Was that you who farted?"
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