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Economic Libertarians Will Have a Friend in Ted Cruz
American Thinker ^ | February 11, 2016 | Theodore A. Gebhard, ...worked with Senator Cruz at the FTC from mid-2001 to 2003

Posted on 02/11/2016 12:52:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: r_barton
Perhaps you'll be more comfortable with the party that boo-ed God three times in their last convention. I understand your candidate Trump is a big supporter of them.
41 posted on 02/11/2016 2:27:59 AM PST by Moorings
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To: r_barton
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42 posted on 02/11/2016 2:49:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: r_barton

do you think you or anyone has standing to question what his faith has told him?


43 posted on 02/11/2016 3:14:11 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I support Cruz 100%, but he can stuff the VAT/Fairy Tax plan.

It might be OK if everyone was on it all their working life, but it would hose older people out of their savings.


44 posted on 02/11/2016 3:43:12 AM PST by Beagle8U (Don't settle for Bill de Blasio's NYC 'values'.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

With friends like Teddy, who needs enemies. Send the clown back to Canada.


45 posted on 02/11/2016 3:49:22 AM PST by patq
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To: SubMareener

Great! Ted Cruz has demonstrated how the Federal Government should dictate policy to the States! This is the kind of consistent conservative we need!
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The Internet is an Interstate Resource. If ever the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution applied to anything, it wold apply to the Internet.

Is your understanding of the Constitution really that limited?


46 posted on 02/11/2016 5:08:01 AM PST by Leto
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To: r_barton

..I think you are mixing up Cruz feeling the freedom to make a decision about his candidacy with the ridiculous claims of Pat Robertson, who did say God told him to run in ‘88, Romney would win in 2012, and Carson would be the next President—no snakes with Cruz, just faith and commitment to freedom...


47 posted on 02/11/2016 5:31:23 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: CharleysPride
When he takes a position on something like climate change, Cruz proceeds to educate everyone on the subject... Bless his heart, it/s nice of Cruz to remind us how smart he is......He obviously believes we/re too dumb to know.

Watta guy. Lord deliver us from the delusional Harvard-educated Ivy League mind.

EXAMPLE Trump won everything but the kitchen sink in NH....now Sen Ivy League is saying he...Cruz...is the only one who can beat Trump.

Go figure....for self-serving Cruz---when he loses he tells himself he/s winning.

BTW, Sen Ivy League/s greatest accomplishment, to date? He duped trusting Texans into voting a Canadian into the US Senate.

48 posted on 02/11/2016 6:18:10 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: r_barton; Arthur Wildfire! March; Jane Long; GOPJ; Grampa Dave; RoosterRedux; stephenjohnbanker; ...
Coincidentally (/snix), economic libertarianism also fits into the far-out Dominionist teachings Cruz/s father preaches.

The elder Cruz preaches to Dominionist audiences and tells the congregation that Rev 5:10 teaches that Christians are divided into Kings and Priests,.....the kings go out and conquer the financial world and bring the money back to the priests (pastors in contemporary terms).

Cruz/s dad has a goofy and weird history. He claims he was
ordained by some random church, went to a Bible college
that doesn/t exist, and that he is a Pastor who doesn/t
actually have a church.

49 posted on 02/11/2016 6:27:43 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Leto

“For example,last year those theories helped secure economic rights for small entrepreneurs providing teeth-whitening services in North Carolina shopping mall kiosks and similar venues.” No Internet involved. Direct Federal interference with the way a state was doing local commerce.


50 posted on 02/11/2016 7:04:12 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: SubMareener

“For example,last year those theories helped secure economic rights for small entrepreneurs providing teeth-whitening services in North Carolina shopping mall kiosks and similar venues.” No Internet involved. Direct Federal interference with the way a state was doing local commerce.
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Of course no all instances of Internet usage crosses state lines, but the internet is a nation/worldwide process to allow free exchange of ideas and commerce.

It can’t be efficiently regulated on a state by state basis.

You inability to understand simply principles says a lot about you, makes sense that you are a trumpeter.


51 posted on 02/11/2016 8:00:10 AM PST by Leto
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To: Beagle8U; Cincinatus' Wife

Yep, because ‘older people’ don’t use the services those in the working force must pay....nor the ‘poor’. /s

“...Imagine a 10 percent income tax, with every American filling out his or her taxes on a postcard or iPhone app. And abolishing the IRS as we know it.” – Ted Cruz”

Let’s get some details:
- There’s STILL an IRS (’as we know it’).
- Still requires ‘voluntary’ ceding of 4th/5th Amendment Rights.
- Does nothing to correct the supposition of guilt by the taxpayer and theft (garnish, etc. before any trial let alone conviction).
- It only encompasses those w/ ‘income’ (not ALL Citizens. See opening point/jab)
- Still allows govt to tweak/carve out (see current tax code since inception)
- MOST importantly, IMO, still completely INVOLUNTARY (antithesis of a Free people/country).

Nope, I see only smoke and mirrors. More ‘tweaking’ of the current code; and nothing that will reign in govt; before it regroups, recoups and devours anew.


52 posted on 02/11/2016 9:25:51 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Leto

Shouting, he says: THIS CASE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, I REPEAT, NOTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET!


53 posted on 02/11/2016 9:33:56 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: i_robot73

Older folks may have savings that took them a lifetime to earn, and has already been taxed, that would be taxed again.

That is a pile of crap.


54 posted on 02/11/2016 9:38:48 AM PST by Beagle8U (Don't settle for Bill de Blasio's NYC 'values'.)
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To: SubMareener

Did Cruz bring the case before the FTC, no so someone felt the case had federal implications Cruz ruled for the ‘little guy’.

Deal with it. Your guy OTOH is a crony capitalist who used government to give him special breaks.


55 posted on 02/11/2016 10:05:25 AM PST by Leto
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To: Leto

You really didn’t read the article. Ted Cruz WORKED AT THE FTC! Regardless of whether or not the ruling helped the “little guy”, it was still the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT imposing its will on the STATES on an issue of how companies did business within a State. Having the Federal Government dictate intrastate commercial practices is not a Conservative position.

Donald Trump made his money in REAL ESTATE. He did not get sweetheart loans from Goldman-Sacks or CitiBank. He did not make his money in Cattle Futures, or hedge funds.

This is why the establishment is so afraid of Donald Trump. He is not beholding to them for his money. He has been in the public eye for 40 years so everything bad that can be said about him is out already. He, like Reagan, has written extensively about what he wants to do to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Everything he wants to do is BAD for crony capitalist. Just look at building the wall and closing the border:
1. Shuts off the Cheap Labor Express;
2. Cuts back on the human trafficking that is supplying the perverts in the LGBT community;
3. Cuts out the drugs that cause increase social unrest to support the BLM and other grievance hustlers;
4. Cuts out the transfer of “social services” money to Democrat front groups for campaign kickbacks, etc.
5. Will make it possible to get a handle on the graft illegal immigrant activities.

And that is just starters on ONE of Donald Trumps proposed plans.


56 posted on 02/11/2016 10:42:19 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: Beagle8U

The old folks would pay a maximum of 10% on interest income and other investments.

And the prices of what they buy now already reflect a corporate tax rate of 39%. Cruz’s plan would halve that.


57 posted on 02/11/2016 12:07:44 PM PST by SupplySider
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To: r_barton
Cruz supporters answer this question. Do you believe Ted when he said God told him to run for president? As a Christian who seeks God for guidance and listens for his direction and confirmation, it does not sound strange or unreasonable at all to me. And that is probably the case for millions of evangelical believers. Because I don't know anything about your belief system, I can only say that you may or may not be aware that millions of Christians listen for guidance on a regular basis from the God they love and serve. Along with relationship with God also can come other "fruits of the Spirit" including discernment, which is also a part of learning to listen for God's "voice" (in quotes because it encompases many ways of communication). Bottom line is that Christians who regularly seek God's direction are often much more attuned to recognizing genuine vs pretenders. I am not infallible, but at this point, I have seen nothing to dissuade me from believing that Ted is a real Christian who is acquainted from experience with concepts of seeking God's guidance.
58 posted on 02/11/2016 1:35:55 PM PST by TheCornerOffice
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To: r_barton
Do you believe Ted when he said God told him to run for president?

Can you provide a link showing where Ted said this? I have seen this claim made all over this forum, yet I have not seen the actual source of the claim. Not that I have any particular problem with it if he did - God gives me direction in my life all of the time.

59 posted on 02/11/2016 1:43:58 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: r_barton

Interestingly, that link never says that Cruz said God told him to run for president. It just says that Cruz when praying over the decision to run, he told God he was willing, and felt peace about the decision after praying. Obviously you are not an evangelical Christian if that seems odd to you...


60 posted on 02/11/2016 1:47:36 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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