Posted on 03/23/2015 4:12:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tea Party Republicans get their wish in a Ted Cruz presidential run, but business owners need to think twice.
The Tea Party got at least one wish on Monday, with Ted Cruz throwing his hat in the ring for a presidential run in 2016, the first contender to formally announce.
Although it's unlikely the junior Senator from Texas--also the first Hispanic senator from the Lone Star State--is likely to secure the nomination, he'll surely help define the debate and possibly push it further to the right, policy analysts say. Discussion topics on the table for Cruz, which may be of interest to some businesses, include overturning Obamacare and abolishing the Internal Revenue Service. Those ideas stand in contrast to more mainstream business issues, like arriving at a corporate tax compromise or fixing the broken immigration system, likely to be promulgated by other candidates.
"Cruz's agenda is much more anti-crony capitalism and free enterprise libertarianism than the other potential candidates," says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute.
In other words, Cruz is an aggressive free market capitalist who believes in unfettered business, Veuger says, adding that politically Cruz believes in a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. That is borne out, in part, by Cruz's affiliation with the Federalist Society...
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meaning he is not in the pockets of the Chamber of commerce and the Bush’s.
Who the hell writes like that:
Although it’s unlikely —————is likely to secure the nomination....
“Although it’s unlikely the junior Senator...is likely to secure the nomination”
It may be likely, but it’s unlikely that it’s likely. Got it, Junior?
Bad for “business”, good for America.
I am not interested in a pro-business government. But a government that minds its business.
Cruz and free enterprise? A winner.
Cruz and cronyism? Not so much......
So business now has become infected with the same gimmedat mindset of the urban benefits recipient. It would be nice if we turned this whole moral clock back 150 years.
Would the same article be written for Scott Walker?
To paraphrase the older man in “The Graduat:” “Ethanol.”
Crony business interests yes, and that`s another plus in my book!
So this is the line for the libtards and establishment RINOs: don’t mention Cruz without saying it’s likely unlikely to likely secure the likely nomination.
Holy cow are they pi$$ing themselves today or what? Lol
That does include most of the super bigs.
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