Posted on 01/12/2015 6:21:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that Republicans should take advantage of their control of Congress to abolish the Internal Revenue Service.
“We need to pass fundamental tax reform making our tax code simpler, flatter, fairer,” he said Monday at Heritage Action’s 2015 conservative policy summit. ”And I’ll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS.”
“The last two years have fundamentally changed the dynamics of this debate [on the tax code],” he said. “As we have seen the weaponization of the IRS, as we have seen the Obama administration using the IRS in a partisan manner to punish it’s political enemies.”
“In my view there is a powerful populist instinct to take the 110,000 employees at the IRS, to padlock the building, and to put all 110,000 of them down on our southern border.”
Cruz quickly clarified that that remark was somewhat tongue in cheek, but joked that anyone who had traveled thousands of miles to cross the border and saw thousands of IRS agents in their way would definitely turn around and go home.
He acknowledged it’s not really possible to abolish the IRS or adopt a flat tax while Obama is in office, but said Republicans should take steps in that direction by doing whatever they can to simplify the tax code and make its burden lighter and reduce the power of Washington.
Republicans will get “walloped” in 2016 if they return to business as usual while controlling Congress, he said, and urged leadership to take on a bold agenda.
The election was not an embrace of a particular party but a rejection of the path the country is on, he said. “It was the voters saying, ‘the Obama economy, it ain’t working. We want something different. We want real leadership.’”
“If we simply settle into business as usual in this town and keep growing and growing and growing the leviathan and keep shrinking and shrinking and shrinking that sphere of individual liberty, we will demoralize the men and women who came out in November,” he added.
He outlined an agenda that includes repealing and replacing Obamacare, securing the border, passing the Keystone XL pipeline, auditing the Federal Reserve and taking a hard line against ISIS and Iran.
“Let’s lead with a big, bold, positive agenda that says to the American people you had a referendum and you rejected the Obama agenda — there is a better way,” he said. “That’s our opportunity.”
Their budget is something like $11 billion, after the “huge budget cut” of $1 billion, for having made themselves a tool of partisan political terror.
It should be ZERO.
Great idea! About time. Should have wide support.
Go, Cruz, GO!!
FairTax ping!
Even though Senator Cruz did not specifically call for replacing the income tax with the FairTax, the ONLY way the IRS can be abolished is with implementation of the FairTax.
You can help us do that! Go to http://www.fairtax.org to find out how.
Sign me up.
It is time to take the weapon of the IRS out of the hands of an un-American Administration.
I would like to see reduction in the corporate tax rate, an end to the estate tax, and a national sales tax instead of a personal income tax.
And let’s abolish the EPA, the Dept. of Education, and the Department, the BATF, and assorted alphabet agencies that are no longer needed.
These duties can be handled by the States.
Bravo.
Palin / Cruz 2016
Jimbo, You beat me to it! I’ll just say: “Go Pack Go!”.
Cruz all the way!
Come on, Ted, say what we really want. ABOLISH THE DEMOCRAP PARTY!
Abolish the evil EPA too!
Sign me up too.
Let’s Do It! GO TED!!
What, is he trying to win in a landslide or something?
Actually, he kinda did:
He acknowledged it’s not really possible to abolish the IRS or adopt a flat tax while Obama is in office, but said Republicans should take steps in that direction by doing whatever they can to simplify the tax code and make its burden lighter and reduce the power of Washington.
Go, Cruz, GO!!
GO, GO, GO!!
Karl Rove just parked a turtle in his pants. How will he get communist core instituted without president Jeb!
Paul Ryan is now Ways and Means Chairman, a position which sucks up to the IRS, for it is the teat. Cruz on the other hand would disband and dissolve the IRS.
I hope for an open and robust clash of interests to make the cockroaches scatter.
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