Revealed Preference Thought Experiment of the Day

From someone with the nom de blog "Mellowjohn," otherwise unknown to me, in the comments at Political Animal:

Grover Norquist thinks all taxes are akin to torture.

I, for one, would be happy to let Grover Norquist go without ever having to pay Federal taxes ever again -- as long as he agrees to be publicly waterboarded every April 15.

Isn't this just a variant of "claimings-race" taxation--you tell the tax collector the value of your real estate--he either taxes at that value, or buys at that value. Hey, worked for Tony Soprano ... .

[Okay, okay, worked until it didn't but you know what I mean].