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If you had joined FR more than a dozen years prior to when you did, you would have been privy to THE most indepth posts about the VAT, the FAIR TAX and the FLAT tax.
You may believe that you know exactly what Trump's tax plans are ( you don't ! ) and what Cruz's are.

The simple facts are these...Cruz wants a FLAT TAX that does NOT cover what the government needs for a barebones, elimination of almost every Department budget. And on top of THAT, he wants a VAT TAX, that will close almost every business, make almost everyone barely scraping by, as in Venezuela, and won't get rid of the IRS at all, but expand it, due to the VAT.

Re Trump....he was talking about himself, NOT about his tax plan, which is very much like Reagan's!

The taxes we don't have don't cover bare-bones expense of government. Take a gander at the national debt.

Who knows what Trump believes he could “walk it back” at any time. I'm an Ayn Rand reading capitalist pig when it comes to money. I don't trust anyone who says that the most wastefully group of power drunk money spenders in history can have more of his money. Did Reagan ever say he was ok with paying more in taxes?