[mad_as_he$$]

Cruz supports a VAT tax. Nonstarter for me. Everything else aside.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“Cruz supports a VAT tax. Nonstarter for me. Everything else aside.”

That is as big a fib as “Cruz is for amnesty.”

https://www.tedcruz.org/tax_plan/

https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/jobs-and-opportunity/

https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/secure-the-border/

https://www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan/

[nathanbedford]

I don't think it is strictly a value-added tax such as we have here in Europe which is an insidious tax but I take your point. A VAT uncoupled with real income tax reform would simply be an additional tax and a Democrats wet dream.

Of course, Ted Cruz proposes nothing of the sort, he wants real income tax reform.

Donald Trump wants to tax the wealthy and we know where that will lead - to a definition of the middle class as wealthy.