[Catsrus]

Streamling the IRS, Dept. of Education, and the EPA is a commitment to smaller government. These are Trump’s goals - which are very conservative. I’ve only heard Cruz talk about doing away with the IRS - which is an impossibility. The tax codes needs refined, but, someone has to collect taxes - so, Cruz’s position is just blather.

[Dr. Sivana]

Streamling the IRS, Dept. of Education, and the EPA is a commitment to smaller government.

The other things that he promised government backing of (healthcare in particular) means bigger government. He is also expansive on permissible uses eminent domain, and thinks that the government can tell phone makers to decode anything the government wants. The other side of big government is not just more efficient government, or cheaper government, but a government that is LESS involved in our lives. I believe that he came out against Common Core, so that is good. Cruz has had that a major theme for longer, but I do imagine that Trump doesn't mind making enemies with the EPZ, that's cool too. All of it, though, is just a laundry list, with no underlying principle on which one can build a lasting movement. That may not be Trump's role. It is not a bad thing that Cruz supporters want a more substantial anchor, ideologically.

[freeandfreezing]

I’ve only heard Cruz talk about doing away with the IRS - which is an impossibility. The tax codes needs refined, but, someone has to collect taxes - so, Cruz’s position is just blather.

It's more than blather, Cruz is proposing a 16% European socialist style value added tax. That alone should disqualify him from consideration by conservative voters. And enlarge the role of the IRS tremendously.

[BlackElk]

Even if Cruz were to be elected, he sure as hell is not going to abolish the IRS or even significantly modify it. Prosecute Lois Lerner and her ilk? Very much more likely. But the IRS Code ain’t going nowhere.

[nickcarraway]

IRS, Dept. of Education, and the EPA is a commitment to smaller government.

LOL. But that is only from your imagination. Trump is very clear about expanding Medicare, Medicaid, fully socializing medicine, expanding eminent domain, pushing forward gay rights. He has never been a proponent of smaller government. His career has been based on using big government.