Posted on 01/12/2015 6:21:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that Republicans should take advantage of their control of Congress to abolish the Internal Revenue Service.
“We need to pass fundamental tax reform making our tax code simpler, flatter, fairer,” he said Monday at Heritage Action’s 2015 conservative policy summit. ”And I’ll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS.”
“The last two years have fundamentally changed the dynamics of this debate [on the tax code],” he said. “As we have seen the weaponization of the IRS, as we have seen the Obama administration using the IRS in a partisan manner to punish it’s political enemies.”
“In my view there is a powerful populist instinct to take the 110,000 employees at the IRS, to padlock the building, and to put all 110,000 of them down on our southern border.”
Cruz quickly clarified that that remark was somewhat tongue in cheek, but joked that anyone who had traveled thousands of miles to cross the border and saw thousands of IRS agents in their way would definitely turn around and go home.
He acknowledged it’s not really possible to abolish the IRS or adopt a flat tax while Obama is in office, but said Republicans should take steps in that direction by doing whatever they can to simplify the tax code and make its burden lighter and reduce the power of Washington.
Republicans will get “walloped” in 2016 if they return to business as usual while controlling Congress, he said, and urged leadership to take on a bold agenda.
The election was not an embrace of a particular party but a rejection of the path the country is on, he said. “It was the voters saying, ‘the Obama economy, it ain’t working. We want something different. We want real leadership.’”
“If we simply settle into business as usual in this town and keep growing and growing and growing the leviathan and keep shrinking and shrinking and shrinking that sphere of individual liberty, we will demoralize the men and women who came out in November,” he added.
He outlined an agenda that includes repealing and replacing Obamacare, securing the border, passing the Keystone XL pipeline, auditing the Federal Reserve and taking a hard line against ISIS and Iran.
“Let’s lead with a big, bold, positive agenda that says to the American people you had a referendum and you rejected the Obama agenda — there is a better way,” he said. “That’s our opportunity.”
Nearly all infrastructure funding and approval should be stripped from the feds as well. Why the hell is it the business of the rest of the country if my state builds a bridge or pipeline?
If the great lake states agree to allow directional drilling under the lakes, it should be our decision, not the rest of the country.
Let’s raise a couple million dollars for him early so he knows we’re behind him!!
Repeal the 16th and re institute tariffs on imports. No more income taxes.
Paul Ryan Won’t Run for President in 2016
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LMAO.
Right on.
Bring BACK American industry, along with American jobs.
I still remember them dancing in arrogance at parties and vacations they were taking on our dime, abolish it now!
Agree.
After all, in 2009-2010, the Feds were given almost $1 trillion dollars to fix infrastructure, plus an annual $250 billion highway pork bill.
And we’re still taking about failing infrastructure.
I heard Rubio on Sean Hannity today.
He was talking about taking federal money, and giving it in block grants to the states, so the states could do all kinds of creative wonderful things with it.
Sean never asked him: Where the hell is the federal government going to be getting this money?
The obvious answer: by taxing the PEOPLE who live in the STATES.
The money should never go to Washington in the first place!
Even Ted Cruz hasn’t brought up the REAL ISSUE of the two Bush administrations, and the Clinton and Soetoro administrations: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudis are ruling the United States.
The concept of taxing “income” is antithetical with freedom.
We go through that much in three years, buying everything from China, where it is manufactured.
America needs to re-industrialize.
if he keeps talking like that he’s going to need a bunch of bodyguards, food tasters and he’ll need to play find the pea when he travels.
NO “FLAT TAX” if by that is meant an income tax. It will not remain flat. Look at the monster we have now—all of which has grown like a cancer from the 1986 tax code.
The FAIR Tax is the way to go. And the 16th Amendment MUST be repealed, FIRST.
Gotta love this guy. Must be driving the Left insane.
It has only taken about 25 years to de-industrialize the United States.
We have record unemployment, a very low labor participation rate and no bread lines. Figure it out.
I can’t believe what I’m hearing.
Get this guy in the Oval Office, now!
Infrastructure funding is a baited hook. The states will do as the feds demand or they won’t get their money back.
Obama would only agree to approving the new customs plaza in Detroit if Rick Snyder was willing to give $150 million of the money to union pension funds. Snyder said no thanks and ordered the project started without approval.
Dirty little secret, free traitors love income taxes and, by default, the IRS.
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