<![CDATA[How Grover Won]]>Ezra Klein argues that, even as Republican House members consider raising taxes, the legacy of Norquist's anti-tax pledge is a dramatically lowered baseline for what we consider acceptable tax rates:

The true test of Norquist’s pledge wasn’t whether a Republican ever voted for another tax increase. It was whether it held tax revenues below where they’d otherwise be. It’s whether it increased the political cost of raising taxes. And today, you can see how well his pledge has worked.

Waldman agrees:

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