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A few days ago I <$Ad$>heard from several readers that anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, who is a close advisor to President Bush and Karl Rove, compared the Estate Tax to Nazi persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust. Not kinda sorta. He really did.

When NPR host Terry Gross did a double-take and asked him if he really meant to equate the two, Norquist responded he didn’t say they were the same but that …

the morality that says it’s okay to do something to a group because they’re a small percentage of the population is the morality that says that the Holocaust is okay because they didn’t target everybody. “It’s just a small percentage, what are you worried about? It’s not you. It’s not you. It’s them.” And arguing that it’s okay to loot some group because it’s them, or kill some group because it’s them — and because it’s a small number — has no place in a democratic society that treats people equally.

That sounds to me like he is equating the two, or at least the ‘morality’ behind them.

That’s outrageous.

See yesterday’s New Dem Daily for more.

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