And so are anti-tax groups such as The National Taxpayers Union and Americans for Tax Reform.
The Center for Fiscal Accountability of Americans for Tax Reform regularly reports IRS data regarding interstate migration of taxpayers.
Mr. GROVER NORQUIST (President, Americans for Tax Reform): Glad to be with you.
These days, the squishes apparently include groups like Americans for Tax Reform and FreedomWorks, which supported the pre-existing conditions bill.
According to Americans for Tax Reform, 16 states currently have a supermajority requirement, which acts as a safeguard against tax hikes.
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Americans for Tax Reform is one of the most powerful grass-roots organisations in the Republican coalition, a combination of nerve-centre and morale-booster.
The NRA's board includes Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and David Keene, former chairman of the American Conservative Union.
One side of the debate features Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, which is the organization that maintains the no-tax increase pledge.
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For a little more insight into the Rove story, we're joined by Grover Norquist, president of the lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform.
Speaking of the audience, the packed room included a couple of car-loads worth of staff and associates of Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform.
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In particular, she was impressed with the strings pulled by Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and a formidable conservative coalition-builder.
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Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, a lobby group, replied that governments should not regulate private behaviour unless it was criminal.
Grover Norquist, an influential conservative activist who founded Americans for Tax Reform (which promotes the no-tax pledge), pressured Republicans into agreeing they would not support tax increases.
The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, the brainchild of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform, is waging a relentless campaign to memorialise its hero.
After all, Gill had been a spokesman for the Taxpayers Alliance of Prince William County, Virginia, which is affiliated with Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform.
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.
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He lied to them, not to Americans for Tax Reform.
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The millions of dollars Americans for Tax Reform, the group he heads, spent on the 2012 campaign is a healthy sum, but pocket change in the post-Citizens United era.
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But the tax increases have met with strong opposition from Cuccinelli, whom McDonnell has endorsed, and Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and guardian of its Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
For instance, some Republican tax lobbyists, such as Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist, say eliminating any credit or deduction -- what economists call "tax expenditures" or "spending the code" -- is a tax increase.
Mr Norquist is the pugnacious founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements.
Conservative lobbyist Grover Norquist, whose Americans for Tax Reform pushes candidates to sign a pledge never to raise taxes, said the plan preserves most of the Bush tax cuts and won't violate his group's beliefs.
It is curious that Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform, yet his purist pledge has no mention of working to reform the tax code to make it simpler and fairer to average American taxpayers.
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Speaking of which, Mr. Levin is one of those Senators who wrote the IRS demanding that it inspect the tax-exempt status of Americans for Tax Reform, the Club for Growth and other groups that are his ideological opponents.
Americans for Tax Reform has a good analysis of what happened after the two big budget summits in 1982 and 1990, but I think the problem is best captured by my adaptation of a famous Peanuts cartoon strip.
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It came out focusing on five tax exempt groups that Abramoff worked with - conservative tax exempt groups -notably Americans for Tax Reform, which is headed by Grover Norquist, who's sort of a centerpiece of the conservative establishment here.
"To make a difference in this and any other campaign, tech needs its Grover Norquist pledge, " said Anil Dash, a New York Tech Meetup board member and entrepreneur, referring to the Americans for Tax Reform chief's no tax-increase promise.
Conservative lobbyist Grover Norquist, whose Americans for Tax Reform pushes candidates to sign a pledge never to raise taxes, said the plan "right now, as explained" would preserve most of the Bush tax cuts and wouldn't violate his group's pledge.
Of course there are separate and powerful arguments for letting people who know how to invest wisely keep what they make so they can make more good investments, but Americans for Tax Reform does not exist to help rich people exploit a byzantine tax code.
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