WaPo - "Grover Norquist: Obama using debt ceiling debate to expand government"

Grover Norquist, the president of the anti-tax Americans for Tax Reform, does not think much of President Obama’s debt talk.

In a chat with Washington Post readers Wednesday, Norquist said Obama is using the national debt ceiling debate as an excuse to expand government through taxation.

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Norquist called for a limited government whose obligation was only to “oppose others from initiating force against you.”

He also showed little patience for information he believed to be false and arguments he believed to be unsound.

“How can you continue to support a no tax increase policy when there are obviously very good reasons to increase taxes with reduced government spending? Your hardline position does not seem to be in the best interest of this nation and the majority of its people,” one reader asked.

“Thank you for your comments,” Norquist answered. “You are wrong.”