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.”
Apart from the IRS being used against the Republican left’s political enemies, the GOP loves using taxes and tax cuts to their political advantage. Giving tax refunds to people who don’t pay taxes is a Republican pastime.
Cruz has his work cut out for him.
“And I’ll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS.”
Oh hell YES, do it now.
As much as I agree with Cruz 1000%, this might be the one dragon that is hard to slay. Every IRS agent, tax preparer, tax attorney, and all the associated industries, including all federal employees invested into the biggest theft system known to humanity will fight him with everything they’ve got. The World’s Biggest Scam won’t go down without a fight.
All right Ted!!!!
YESSSSSS! Go Cruz! I hate the IRS and i hate most of these government agencies like the EPA ,IRS , HUD ,government schools etc.
Abolish the IRS and send the traitors to prison!
They are complicit in crimes against Americans.
Go Ted go!!!
Ted Cruz seems to be just about the only guy that really gets it.
You forgot the accountants.
FLAT TAX - yes! Preferably as close a possible to 10%. EVERYBODY the same. SIMPLE. Throw away the 74,000-page tax code. Turn the IRS into a small store front. Only exception: maybe a fixed poverty line where there’s no tax. The poverty line should move only upon an act of Congress.
Please, quit using the word “fair” with the word “tax.”
“Fairness in taxation” is what gave us the 74,000-page tax code and a monster IRS who themselves don’t understand the convoluted tax code.
FLAT TAX. SIMPLE. Period.
Go Ted!!!!
YES! Is Ted taking it to the next level this week or what!?
Name one program initiated by Republicans that gives refunds to people who pay no taxes.
Sure, but for each one of them there are many more citizens who will fight for Cruz. When they hear him in the debates.
The man gets it—either that or he has the best writers in DC and they ‘get it’.. The GOPErs will try to shove a Mitt or Jeb Bush or Chris Christie at us in ‘16, when the Gubmint could use some Cruz control.
Driving the left insane AND the non conservative Republicans. they are all capping their pants Re; Cruz. BO & Co. are siphoning all the money out of the USA anyway. It is their private retirement plan After they can’t buy more elections.
I’m guessing he has first class writers and aides, but that he’s the smartest guy in the place.
Well, there goes the IRS vote.
Go, Ted, Go!
And even before he wins the primaries, he’ll force this issue onto the platform.
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