Admitting the need for higher revenue, another prominent Republican is publicly rejecting Grover Norquist’s no-tax pledge.
Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia told a local television station the he can no longer support Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
“I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge,” Chambliss says. “If we do it his way then we’ll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that.” … Now Chambliss says he wants to do what it takes to right the U.S. fiscal ship, even if that means findings ways to raise revenue, which Norquist strongly opposes.
Does Chambliss think Norquist will hold the anti-tax pledge against him during his next re-election bid in 2014? Yes.
“But I don’t worry about that because I care too much about my country. I care a lot more about it than I do Grover Norquist,” Chambliss says.
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