Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’

[MJ]

"Why is the IRS under attack? As under Breshnev, so in the US: scandals never emerge into the state-controlled media without a political purpose, let alone about such a central organ as the IRS. So the conservative tax-exempt scandal may be a neocon trick to assuage people's anger at the government. The IRS can be abolished, with a worse system put in place. See Ted Cruz, for example. Any tax system, which is always based on armed robbery, must have a spy system. And a nasty flat tax or national sales tax will be used to drastically, if somewhat invisibly, raise the thieves' take. As the Cruz article points out, only Ron Paul has the correct view: abolish the income tax, and replace it with nothing." -- LHR, Jr.

Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’
By Rachel Weiner
Published: June 3, 2013

Hours before the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing on political targeting at the Internal Revenue Service, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) had a simple solution to the agency’s problems -- get rid of it altogether.

Senator Ted Cruz        @SenTedCruz

Mr. President, if your #1 priority is fixing the problem, let's abolish the # IRS and ensure it NEVER happens again!

1:07 PM - 16 May 2013

“I think we ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax where the average American can fill out taxes on postcard,” he explained in a Fox News interview over the weekend. “Put down how much you earn, put down a deduction for charitable contributions, home mortgage and how much you owe. It ought to be a simple one-page postcard, and take the agents, the bureaucracy out of Washington and limit the power of government.”

Cruz proposed a flat tax during the 2012 election, but he said he would keep a standard deduction for lower-income earners, as well as deductions for mortgage interest and charitable donations.

Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) has frequently called for the abolition of the IRS. He would have gone further than Cruz by also eliminating the income tax.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/03/ted-cruz-abolish-the-irs/

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