Cruz is the most conservative GOPe...He has no legitimate plan to bring jobs back to America except for the failed trickle down economics scheme...Cutting regulations on business is not going to be nearly enough to brings jobs back...
And although I'm on his side on the issue, attacking planned parenthood will shove away even moderate Republicans let alone Democrats...
Cruz’s tax plan has been rated as excellent for the impact it will have on the economy and jobs. His plan to cut government and balance the budget is equally impressive. Cruz has a history of fighting for jobs and saved E commerce when he was at the FTC.
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>> “Cruz is the most conservative GOPe” <<
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In the mind of a fool.
Cruz is the only conservative in the running.
America is rapidly waking up to that fact.
The italicized language you cite certainly points out flaws in Cruz. We are fallen men, including Ted Cruz, and we ALL fall short of the glory o God. DewWorst would NOT have been a better senator. Cruz destroyed him when everyone said it was impossible.
I favor Cruz now that Scott Walker is out of the race. Walker has been a miraculous chief executive of Wisconsin about 6 miles to my north. If Trump is nominated, I will vote for him which is coming a long way since the start of this race. If he were to name Cruz as VPOTUS nominee and vow to use him as a chief of staff, particularly on social issues and judicial nominations, I will vote for him early and often in the venerable Illinois tradition.
Trump and Cruz seem to be getting along fine despite eing rivals for the POTUS nomination. Let their respective supporters act accordingly. We hopefully have an election to win in 2016 and, right now, it looks like it might be an historic victory. Let's keep unnecessary bitterness at bay and unite behind Trump and/or Cruz or both.
The field is winnowing itself down nicely as the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire and other early primaries approach. Soon Pataki, Gilmore, Fiorina, Grahamnesty, Huckabee and many others will get the message and withdraw. Maybe El Jebbe as well. I don't see Dr. Carson lasting a lot longer, good man that he is, since he is not rally ready for prime time. Rubio will last as a candidate because of his back story and because of the stars in his eyes as he describes the future of the USA. He will likely lose because of the Gang of Eight Amnesty blunder.
“Cutting regulations on business is not going to be nearly enough to brings jobs back..”
Tax policy can also help. Small business is historically the source of most new jobs in the US. Regulatory, tax and trade policies are killing small business. Obamacare (a tax and redistribution scheme) is a huge boat anchor around the neck of growing small businesses. The biggest issue for a growing small business is securing cash to fund growth. Every dollar the US government takes from a small business through taxes or regulations that increase costs restricts growth and hiring.
Most small businesses fail within five years. To keep the economy growing we need many more small business startups each year than failures. Under Obama the number of small business startups has dropped below number of annual failures. This statistic has received almost no attention from the press and our political class but it is a huge canary in the coal mine warning.
Cruz has proposed a 10% flat tax for individuals and 16% on business. This will lower the effective tax rate on small business, plus eliminate the complexity that forces small businesses to waste precious cash hiring accountants and tax lawyers to file taxes and stay out of trouble with the IRS. The 16% business tax will also be applied to imports which will help level the economic playing field for small business. The tax on exports will be removed making US goods more competitive overseas. Plus the death tax (inheritance tax) will be eliminated removing the problem of business continuity when the owner dies. Under today’s tax system, some family businesses must be sold when the owner dies to obtain the cash to pay high death taxes.
Cruz’s tax plan is actually a good start toward reigniting the job growth engine of the economy — small businesses. Regulatory relief will also benefit small business. Small business would also benefit from anti-trust enforcement and decentralization of the banking system (i.e. break up the “too big to fail” banks). It isn’t clear where Cruz stands on anti-trust policy but he did once work for the FTC so he has some knowledge of anti-trust law. As to the big banks, his wife is a Goldman Sachs executive so he may not look favorably on breaking up the New York banking cartel headed by Goldman.
Elimination of Obamacare, another part of Cruz’s platform, will also help small business, particularly those whose growth is causing them to hit the 50 employee threshold where providing employer paid health insurance is a requirement. Hiring the 51st employee results in a business having to provide health insurance to all of its employees. The average cost to an employer in 2014 in the US for employer paid health insurance was $5832. This results in an incremental annual cost to a small business of $297,432 when it hires the 51st employee.
Cruz’s support of TPP may be problematic for small business. Government negotiated trade deals requiring thousands of pages of details are not free trade. Such agreements define advantages given to some economic players and penalties assessed on others. A real “free trade” agreement would require a simple paragraph, not reams of legalese. Any preferences in a trade deal benefiting foreign companies will be harmful to all US businesses, large and small. Our trade deals of the past 25 years have been more harmful to US job creation than helpful. Why would the TPP be any different?