The European VAT is added to the income tax, Cruz’s REPLACES the income tax.
Do you want to reduce the power of the IRS or not? Trump’s plan is more of the same.
Cruz DOES NOT get rid of the income tax. He reduces it to one bracket, ten percent.
But as long as the income tax and the 16th Amendment remain in existence, the “progressive” income tax WILL COME BACK, because ENVY never sleeps.