Americans for Tax Reform is an interest group seeking to reduce the overall level of taxation in the United States, at the federal, state and local level. Its founder and president is Grover Norquist, an influential Republicanlobbyist; critics charge that the group is little more than a non-profit front for his partisan political activities. An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. ... Grover Norquist Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956), the president of the noted anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform, is a well-connected conservative activist with close ties to business and the media. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party), is a political party and is one of the two major political parties in the United States (the other being the Democratic Party). ... Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individuals or organizations point of view is represented in the government. ...
Members include Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, and Richard Scaife. Jack A. Abramoff (born February 28, 1958) is aconservative Washington attorney and former lobbyist. ... Grover Norquist Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956), the president of the noted anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform, is a well-connected conservative activist with close ties to business and the media. ... Richard Mellon Scaife Richard Mellon Scaife (born July 3, 1932) is an American billionaire philanthropist and owner–publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. ...
The omission is particularly glaring because ATR was cited as a group whose findings on the impact of the Bush administration's dividend and capital gains tax cuts "contrast" with a study by economists at the nonpartisan Federal Reserve Board.
Americans for TaxReform, which strongly supports extending the tax cuts on dividends and capital gains, "maintains that dividend payouts among the largest companies have jumped 59 percent" and that "the number of firms offering dividends soared" since the cuts were enacted in 2003, according to the Post.
An extension of tax cuts on dividends and capital gains, which were passed in 2003 and are set to expire in 2008, is under consideration by the House of Representatives.
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