September 5, 2011
Nothing, and I mean nothing, grinds the nerves of those who wish to grow and expand government more than a principled politician who takes tax hikes off the table and leaves them there. Which is why the Left is so fanatically obsessed with the 25-year-old Taxpayer Protection Pledge sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform.
Not only does the Left belittle, demean, ridicule and browbeat candidates and elected officials who sign the Pledge promising the voters of their districts to oppose and vote against any and all efforts to raise taxes; after a candidate makes such a no-new-taxes commitment, many liberals develop an Ahab-like obsession with finding even the smallest of violations, hoping a tiny crack will result in capitulation on bigger hikes.