Long time anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist famously has actually said that the federal government should be little enough to drown in a bath tub. But turns out he’s not above benefitting from tax cash to help keep his small-government advocacy efforts afloat.
On Monday, files launched by the Treasury Department disclosed that a supplementary arm of Norquist’s organization Americans for Tax Reform was among the millions of receivers of loans under the Income Defense Program. The huge relief plan supplied loans to small companies and enterprises that might ultimately become grants if they keep their workers on payrolls during the coronavirus crisis
The Americans for Tax Reform Foundation– whose objective is to ” educate taxpayers on the real cost of government … and costly federal government programs”– got between $150,000 and $350,000 in help, according to Treasury.
The moms and dad group– the Americans for Tax Reform– sought to draw a legal difference in between its advocacy work and that of the fou