Ted Cruz says U.S. tax code has more words than the Bible

Politifact ^ | Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 | Louis Jacobson

[Bob434]

and almost exciting as 1 and 2 Chronicles

[zeugma]

Your ignorance is showing. Cruz’s plan is to Replace the current tax code with his flat tax plan. The 16% business flat tax that is part of the plan replaces all other taxes including payroll and corporate taxes.

His plan also abolishes the need for the IRS.

Actually it doesn't. A great deal of the tax code and surrounding regulations concern determining exactly what "income" is. Even eliminating all deductions won't help on that all tha much.

If you really want to eliminate the IRS, you do it by implementing a National Retail Sales Tax. The NRST piggy-backs upon the existing infrastructure for collecting federal sales taxes, so you don't need to implement anything new. It also removes the necessity of having to file taxes, which eviscerates the 4th and 5th amendments.

Keeping the income tax, even at a radically reduced rate leaves all the necessity of the reporting infrastructure that currently surrounds the U.S. tax code.

I'm a Cruz supporter, and have donated to his campaign, but saying that his tax plan, (which I certainly wouldn't object to), will eliminate the IRS is just plain wrong.

[conservativejoy]

It will greatly reduce the IRS agency. Ted has said that ideally he supports a Fair Tax. His currently plan is just a step to get us there.

[conservativejoy]

It will greatly reduce the IRS agency. Ted has said that ideally he supports a Fair Tax. His current plan is just a step to get us there.

[Pollster1]

Most of the "words" in the existing tax code are references to the former code so those "words" in the former code still exist, always will and the same would be true of the sCruz VAT tax code.

Unless Cruz pushed for a bill that repealed the entire tax code and replaced it with a VAT. The words would still "exist", but they would no longer be part of the tax code if we went to a tax code that included only the legislation creating a VAT.

[GingisK]

So does an ARM Cortex manual.

[mastertex]

I think someone missed the point about the IRS issue....

[Verginius Rufus]

There are 85 essays in The Federalist Papers.

[loveliberty2]

Oh, my!!! My appointment with the eye surgeon is two weeks away . . . and I needed it today.

Hopefully, Madison, Hamilton and Jay will forgive me for shortchanging their wonderful contributions to our understanding of the Constitution's intended protections in times like these.

[Verginius Rufus]

Stupid Arabic numerals. Easier to tell 35 and 85 apart with Roman numerals (LXXXV vs. XXXV).

Madison was a good friend of Thomas Jefferson while Hamilton and Jefferson were at loggerheads when they served in Washington's Cabinet...but Hamilton helped persuade the Federalists in 1801 to let Jefferson rather than Burr become the third President. There is a bust of Hamilton at Monticello.

Hamilton married a daughter of General Philip Schuyler. His son Philip Hamilton, named for his grandfather, was killed in a duel in 1801, three years before his father.