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Sorry, Republicans, Ted Cruz is Lying About Abolishing the IRS
The Daily Banter ^ | 3/4/2016 | BOB CESCA

Posted on 03/04/2016 3:21:31 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

You are pretty busy.............


21 posted on 03/04/2016 3:33:25 PM PST by Osage Orange (The GOPe.....are actually worse than the Dim's)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Are you in favor of the IRS status quo?


22 posted on 03/04/2016 3:33:33 PM PST by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
SMH.

it's way better fapping material than naked pics of Sarah Palin.

Shaking your head? You should be, after posting disgusting, vile, drivel like this.

23 posted on 03/04/2016 3:34:06 PM PST by FredZarguna (Billy was a simple country boy. You might say a cockeyed optimist...)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

People ought to know by now that he cant.

Even with a flat tax, he will need a “service” to collect all of that “internal revenue”.

The problem is the INCOME TAX. The IRS just exists because it has been written into the constitution.

Although declawing them should be a priority.


24 posted on 03/04/2016 3:34:23 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: WHBates

Elect Trump and sit back and watch that wall go up...I bet you a dollar to a doughnut that he will get that done...


25 posted on 03/04/2016 3:34:32 PM PST by JBW1949
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To: jneesy

No, you call him that because you have no class.


26 posted on 03/04/2016 3:35:25 PM PST by FredZarguna (Billy was a simple country boy. You might say a cockeyed optimist...)
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To: bigbob

Only one person calls him that. And that person has suddenly turned 45 to 90 degrees on a handful of his promises. Not quite lying yet but well on the way of showing true colors!


27 posted on 03/04/2016 3:35:52 PM PST by Snark
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To: Will88

I agree. As long as businesses are in business, there will be a tax agency scrutinizing every number on every line.

Individual taxes can only be reduced to a postcard if there are no life events - buying/selling a home; investments; etc.

Cruz has never lived in the real world. We’re not sure who his Dad paid taxes to but Cruz probably didn’t learn much about meeting April 15 deadlines.


28 posted on 03/04/2016 3:36:05 PM PST by blueplum
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To: rineaux

Breath mint, lozenge, etc?

These candidates are speaking so much I don’t know how they keep any voice.


29 posted on 03/04/2016 3:36:27 PM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Jim Robinson
In addition to the ugly comments concerning Cruz, I am deeply offended that this hit piece was used as a resource on Free Republic.

...is only slightly less attractive than promising unlimited, consequence-free sex with the partners of our choice.

...it's way better fapping material than naked pics of Sarah Palin.

What good does this filth do for America?

30 posted on 03/04/2016 3:36:46 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall
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To: TheTimeOfMan
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31 posted on 03/04/2016 3:37:36 PM PST by rineaux
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Good God. We’re all socialists now on Free Republic. There is going to be a department within the Treasury that handles tax payments but you can have a revenue department without it being the IRS. Every state and locality has one. None are like the IRS as we know it.


32 posted on 03/04/2016 3:38:09 PM PST by ilgipper
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Where the hell do we send our postcard-sized tax returns if the IRS doesn't exist any more? I've asked this question repeatedly on the Bob & Chez Show as well as throughout social media, and not a single Cruz supporter has bothered to answer.

Nobody bothers to answer it, because the question is completely stupid. The point isn't abolishing a federal agency, but about taking away its power to pry into every corner of your life, and reward you for "good behavior" while punishing you for "bad behavior."

Are Trumpbots really so intellectually shallow that they can't accomplish even this small degree of interpolation? Seriously?

33 posted on 03/04/2016 3:38:43 PM PST by FredZarguna (Billy was a simple country boy. You might say a cockeyed optimist...)
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To: bigbob
Freeper's have lost their collective minds..........

No, critical thinking going on...

No, gut thinking going on....

It's a shame.....to see FReeper's going mean and rude and nuclear on each other.

Free Republic..has lost something.

Lost something...in deed.

34 posted on 03/04/2016 3:39:05 PM PST by Osage Orange (The GOPe.....are actually worse than the Dim's)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Campaign promises are one thing. Reality is another.

None of the candidates will be able to abolish the IRS.

What they can do is wqork on simplifying tax laws so that the workforce of the IRS can be reduced, and it’s powers to attack people based on their political affiliations is brought under control at a minimum. Stopped if possible.


35 posted on 03/04/2016 3:41:47 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Just one more example of Ted being willing to say anything to get elected. He is about as likely to abolish the IRS as he is to construct a wall and secure the border. He has no real intention to do either. At least with Trump we will get someone who will build the wall and secure the border. He is also someone who will provide leadership abilities that Ted does not possess.


36 posted on 03/04/2016 3:42:46 PM PST by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: John Valentine
Yummy
37 posted on 03/04/2016 3:44:05 PM PST by rineaux
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Would you vote Bob for president?

Progressives Unite, Bob Cesca For President!
January 27, 2010 | ExtremeLiberal

Every progressive needs to read Bob Cesca’s latest column at Huffington Post, he spells out the rift in the progressive movement and tries to move things forward.

https://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/progressives-unite-bob-cesca-for-president/

Just info on the author.


38 posted on 03/04/2016 3:47:14 PM PST by pilgrim
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

This isn’t that complicated, and whether you support Trump or Cruz or some other candidate, this is still something that needs to be considered.

Obviously there will always be some kind of tax and some kind of agency that collects it.

A tax based on your salary isn’t really a problem; the problem is individualizing it, so that an ordinary citizen is responsible for keeping track and revealing every last piece of personal information about himself to prove that he is keeping track.

Employers already collect the money and send it in based on a table. All you have to do is shift the responsibility to the one who is already collecting the tax. Done. You need never have any contact with the IRS or its replacement agency, ever again.

The important thing is that ordinary citizens should not be saddled with dealing with this. If you start a business, and especially if you start hiring people, then guess what, you will be deducting the tax and sending it in, which under the current system you would anyway. But the business does it, not the employee. This is not a new burden, they are already doing it. You remove a burden from the ordinary citizen, but no new burden is created.

Granted, for this to work, you have to simplify it, eliminating most of the deductions, you would move to either a flat tax or a fairly straightforward table, and there would be no difference in married or single or head of household. It isn’t individualized at all. Your name isn’t even attached to it at all. The company’s payroll is x, and 15% percent of that is the tax owed. Done.


39 posted on 03/04/2016 3:48:30 PM PST by marron
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Additionally, we all know by now that a flat tax is regressive, punishing lower income earners more than higher income earners. Lower income earners won't get much of a tax break, if any at all, while millionaires will get a colossal break.

Did you read this part of the article?

Shouldn't everyone have some skin in the game?

Besides, the real argument is that you would never in a million years get the congress to give up their ultimate power base, and accomplishing this would take an act of congress as the POTUS does not have the power.

40 posted on 03/04/2016 3:48:38 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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