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To: TBBT
Cruz favors ending the subsidy in 5 years. Note that it would be a full year after a first term ended so technically, Cruz wouldn't be ending the subsidy either.

It also gives the Congress and lobbyists 5 years in which to reinstate the subsidy as a rider in whatever bill Cruz wants passed. There's no guarantee the subsidy would be going anywhere. Just politics as usual.

6 posted on 01/20/2016 4:42:43 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trumpbots Vs. Cruznadians - the struggle is real.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Yeah, on this issue Cruz is no different than Trump, but of course I’m sure Levin gives Cruz a pass on his little “technicality”.


20 posted on 01/20/2016 4:47:15 PM PST by dowcaet
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Ted operates like that. Sneaky all the time. He is the consummate fence straddler.

Five years from now we may not have a country and we are supposed to worry about ethanol? LOL


32 posted on 01/20/2016 4:57:48 PM PST by dforest
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I think it should be an optional additive to when we buy gas. If I don’t want it in my gas, I shouldn’t need it...


36 posted on 01/20/2016 4:59:51 PM PST by nikos1121 (December 25, 2016 will be the merriest Christmas of all for me.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Cruz favors ending the subsidy in 5 years. Note that it would be a full year after a first term ended so technically, Cruz wouldn’t be ending the subsidy either.
It also gives the Congress and lobbyists 5 years in which to reinstate the subsidy as a rider in whatever bill Cruz wants passed. There’s no guarantee the subsidy would be going anywhere. Just politics as usual.
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More misdirection and lies by omission. Cruz wants the mandates PHASED OUT OVER 5 YEARS. For you TRUMP (BLESS HIS SOUL) supporters in Rio Linda, that means that the mandate starts at 100% of current level, after one year it drops to 80%, after two years to 60%, after three years to 40%, after four years to 20% and after five years it drops to ZERO Percent and ends. Free enterprise and personal choice rule instead of government mandates. The reason for PHASING it out is to give involved folks time to adjust their business models and mechanical equipment.

TRUMP (PEACE BE UPON HIM) instead wants to CONTINUE THE DEMOCRATS’ GOVERNMENT MANDATES AND DECREES IN PERPETUITY and have it enforced by HIS government bureaucrats.


40 posted on 01/20/2016 5:00:31 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruzin' [BUT NO LONGER Trumping'] or losin'!)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Cruz favors ending the subsidy in 5 years. Note that it would be a full year after a first term ended so technically, Cruz wouldn't be ending the subsidy either.

It also gives the Congress and lobbyists 5 years in which to reinstate the subsidy as a rider in whatever bill Cruz wants passed. There's no guarantee the subsidy would be going anywhere. Just politics as usual.

What an astoundingly unthinking statement.

Congress can change anything, anytime -- whether it's cancelled completely now or in five years. Sit down for a minute, calm down, and consider how shallow your thought was.

65 posted on 01/20/2016 5:11:42 PM PST by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

No, each of those five years ethanol subsidies and mandates are cut. It is a phase out plan to allow the industry to adjust to the independence of running their industry without tax dollars and the regulations that go with them.


93 posted on 01/20/2016 5:35:51 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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What you fail to include is that Cruz submitted legislation to phase out the mandate over 5 years back in 2014 - well before he started running for president. And he is the ONLY candidate standing firm on ending this crony capitalism.
105 posted on 01/20/2016 5:49:21 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Cruz favors ending the subsidy in 5 years. Note that it would be a full year after a first term ended so technically, Cruz wouldn’t be ending the subsidy either.


Exactly. A year into POTUS Cruz’s second term. This is a punt. Obvious beltway slickster flim flam like one of Ryan’s 25 year budgets or the perennially renewed “doc fix”. Sorry, not buying this one Tricky Teddy.


151 posted on 01/20/2016 6:34:46 PM PST by lodi90 (TRUMP Force 1 lifting off)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
You're right. He's kicking the can down the road and telling everyone what a big, brave, guy he is for kicking can five years into the future. Congress has to act to end the subsidy and no matter who is President, he won't be able to just end it with the stroke of a pen.

Of course, Ted has so many friends and has such a great record after all his years in the Senate, he'll have no problem enlisting support to end the subsidy, right ?

175 posted on 01/20/2016 7:08:56 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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