Posted on 11/23/2015 5:44:34 PM PST by Isara
PJ Media has an interesting piece on Ted Cruz when he was developing economic policy as the director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning.
PJ Media | What No One Seems to Know About Ted Cruz’s Past (A few highlights, read the article for the meat in between.)
– Cruz launched an initiative to study the government's role in conspiring with established businesses to suppress e-commerce.
– To lay a foundation, Cruz organized a conference on regulatory barriers to e-commerce.
– After the conference, Cruz testified at a hearing supporting the online sales of contact lenses and pushed the FTC to file an amicus brief supporting online casket vendors. Cruz also initiated a comprehensive study of the wine industry, which found that online competition lowered prices without increasing underage drinking.
– For most of its history, the FTC has focused on private conduct that harms competition, such as (allegedly) anticompetitive mergers. Under Cruz's leadership, the FTC instead targeted governmental conduct that harms competition.
– Cruz also sent dozens of letters to states to fight new efforts to enshrine crony capitalism.
Ted Cruz was 31 years old at the time.
Just imagine the economy after he’s sworn-in.
Ted is a genuine godsend.
Ted Cruz the more you look the more you see, the more you see the more you like!
Hell, the online industry is one of the few parts of the economy holding things together for the moment.
Ted Cruz did more to save the economy with that than Obammy has done.
Bump for later
Ted Cruz has been demonstrably conservative for at least 2 decades. Consistency matters.
CRUZing to 2016.
Nice find Isar
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