I read it as saying they would still have jobs.
Next, to rid us of the IRS means ridding them of their anti-constitutional powers. Every government needs a collections agency. I’d get rid of their name and have an automatic tax system (sales or flat) instead of a coercive one.
I read it as a throw away line meant to get a laugh. Or do you think Cruz seriously thinks he can take 125,000 clerical and administrative employees and turn them into border guards overnight?
Next, to rid us of the IRS means ridding them of their anti-constitutional powers. Every government needs a collections agency. I’d get rid of their name and have an automatic tax system (sales or flat) instead of a coercive one.
Then how about some serious proposals on how to accomplish that? How will he pass a flat or sales tax in the face of business and upper income people who would fight it to the death, never mind the opposition from the Democrats? How will he sell a flat or sales tax to that 40-odd percent of the population who would see their taxes go up under such a plan? Like I said, the time for joking is past. Walker is serious. Bush is serious. It's time for Cruz to get serious too.