Norquist and tax pledge---what is his real goal??

Grover Norquist Tax Pledge and Government Revenue

Grover Norquist wrote his Taxpayer pledge in order to cut government size in half---but when he argues for cutting tax rates and broadening the base, he argues that it would bring in MORE money for government!!!!! Why would he propose something where the goal is to cut government in half but argues that its goal is to GIVE GOVERNMENT MORE MONEY!!!!!!  Unless of course he is lying and he knows it.

FROM WIKIPEDIA

The primary policy goal of Americans for Tax Reform is to reduce government revenues as a percentage of the GDP.^[18][19] ATR states that it "opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle."^[20] Americans for Tax Reform has supported Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) legislation^[21] and transparency initiatives,^[22] while opposing cap-and-trade legislation^[23]and efforts to regulate health care.^[24]

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In 2010, Norquist, whose wife is a Muslim and who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, emerged as an outspoken Republican foe of politicizing the mosque-in-Manhattan issue, calling it a "distraction".^[36]

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He has also "announced his plan to assemble a center-right coalition to discuss pulling out of Afghanistan to save hundreds of billions of dollars."^[37]

Norquist favors dramatically reducing the size of the government.^[12] He has been noted for his widely quoted quip: "I'm not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."^[50] Journalist William Greider quotes him saying his goal is to bring America back to what it was "up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over. The income tax, the death tax, regulation, all that."^[51] When asked by journalist Steven Kroft about the goal of chopping government "in half and then shrink it again to where we were at the turn of the [20th] century" before Social Security and Medicare, Norquist replied, "We functioned in this country with government at eight percent of GDP for a long time and quite well."^[4]

Some smaller government advocates argue that Norquist's "obsession with tax revenue" is actually counterproductive with respect to minimizing the size of government, however.^[52]Although the Americans for Tax Reform mission statement is "The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax. We believe that power should be minimized",^[53] critics at the Cato Institute have argued that "holding the line on taxes constrains only one of the four tools (taxes, tax deductions, spending without taxation, and regulation) used by government to alter economic outcomes."^[52] Norquist's perceived failure to call as enthusiastically for corresponding and equally drastic spending cuts has led to criticism from many moderates that he is simply arguing for a false prosperity that is the result of deficit spending created by tax cuts that are not matched by corresponding spending cuts, and that he and other far right conservatives want future generations to pay for present prosperity with their financial futures.