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IthinkThereforeIAM

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4. As per Grover Norquist ...

Reply to SamuelAdams (Reply #3)

Sun May 24, 2026, 11:32 AM

23 hrs ago

... "Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “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.”

https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333

That seems to be forgotten/neglected amidst the current attack(s) on government.

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