Ted Cruz Announces

[KCFlyer]

KC, you won't make any traction with me on the horror of spending all of 4% of GDP on defense , if we need to spend 4% of GDP, or 5 or 6, we better find a way to do it.

If we don't protect this country and secure the borders, nothing else will matter in the end, we cease being a country as we all used to know it.

 
Is cutting taxes to 10% across the board the way to do it?  That's how Cruz plans to pay for it.  His own website says we should spend 4% of our GDP on defense.  He proposes a tax cut to pay for it.   What other country has a tax rate so low and pays a measly 4% of GDP on defense.  FWIW, that "measly 4%" is about 3/4 of a trillion dollars. 
 
Also....that $700 billion isn't the total debt...it's JUST the defense budget. 

 

[CMH_GSE]

No KC, you're wrong, the $700b was the total the tax plan would increase the debt over 10 years.

And YES, cutting taxes is the way to do it. When you cut taxes , revenues increase, you only need to look at the history of tax cuts and what the tax revenues did.

Cutting taxes isn't the only thing he's proposing, also eliminating several government agencies that are just make work for buerocrats.Reagan wanted to eliminate the same ones but the Democrat congress didn't go along with that portion, just the tax cuts.
This time, with a Republican congress that just got the riot act read to them by the voters ( all establishment candidates gone from the scene), they just might finally get this done.
This much I know Cruz has the political will to make the choices that others won't make.

Peace

 

[KCFlyer]

No KC, you're wrong, the $700b was the total the tax plan would increase the debt over 10 years.

And YES, cutting taxes is the way to do it. When you cut taxes , revenues increase, you only need to look at the history of tax cuts and what the tax revenues did.

Cutting taxes isn't the only thing he's proposing, also eliminating several government agencies that are just make work for buerocrats.Reagan wanted to eliminate the same ones but the Democrat congress didn't go along with that portion, just the tax cuts.
This time, with a Republican congress that just got the riot act read to them by the voters ( all establishment candidates gone from the scene), they just might finally get this done.
This much I know Cruz has the political will to make the choices that others won't make.

Peace

 
Did I tell you that I live in Kansas....we are the lab rats for the republican experiment.  ARt Laugher and Sam Brownback stood arm in arm 6 years ago and told us that tax cuts were going to be like a shot of adrenaline for the Kansas economy.  Revenues  still aren't up.  Not enough jobs have been created.   And they've cut damn near everything they can cut..they shifted money from roads and pensions to cover the shortfall.   And Art Laugher came out and said "this will take time".  So Cruz wants to cut a BUNCH of taxes....just how quickly will all these new jobs be created to increase revenues?   Bernie still wants his unicorn back.  

 

[CMH_GSE]

The KC NEWS channel is proving to be as reliable as FOX and the rest of the cable NEWS channels that basically just say whatever they want to any more and call it the news.

This story refutes everything you just posted.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rexsinquefield/2015/10/21/486-million-in-growth-later-kansas-historic-tax-cut-should-set-example-for-neighbors/#7b15e3eb2a94

So when you make a point, maybe post a link to credible evidence to back it up, otherwise it just ends up being " because you say so", and that just doesn't pass the smell test.

 

[CMH_GSE]

Steering the thread back on course, don't look now kids, but someone's on a roll and
"winning, winnnng, winning", and it ain't the Donald.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-09/cruz-outmuscles-republican-rivals-to-win-most-colorado-delegates

If it wasn't for the Trump News channel with "Trump and Friends" , The Trump Files, Orielly & Trump, and all the rest of the free tv time he's gotten during the early primaries, this would look more like Cruz wrapping it up about now.

 

[delldude]

 
 
I'm still looking for the country with a 10% tax that spends 4% of it's GDP on defense.  The nearest I can find is Somalia, but they only spend .9% of their GDP on defense.  But it sounds like a heavenly place, tax wise..

 
Try North Sentinel Island, Bay of  Bengal

 

[KCFlyer]

The KC NEWS channel is proving to be as reliable as FOX and the rest of the cable NEWS channels that basically just say whatever they want to any more and call it the news.

This story refutes everything you just posted.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rexsinquefield/2015/10/21/486-million-in-growth-later-kansas-historic-tax-cut-should-set-example-for-neighbors/#7b15e3eb2a94

So when you make a point, maybe post a link to credible evidence to back it up, otherwise it just ends up being " because you say so", and that just doesn't pass the smell test.

 
 
I'm glad you cited Forbes as a credible site.  Even their opinion pieces.  If you live in Missouri, you know who Rex Sinquefeld is....he spends most of his money trying to abolish Missouri Taxes.  But I digress.  Here's an from the same credible source you used.
 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2014/07/15/whats-the-matter-with-kansas-and-its-tax-cuts-it-cant-do-math/#7867170047c4
 
And here's a link to  my REPUBLICAN state representatives web page....What's Rex know that she doesn't?  If it's as glowing as Rex says it is in his Forbes article...how come Brownback just delayed funding the state pension fund?  This is the second time they did that.  How come they are cutting funding to universities?  How come they are shifting money from the Highway fund over to the general budget?  How come they had to raise the sales tax?  How come they had to raise the "sin tax" on cigarettes?  That sounds like they are paying their Visa bill with the American Express card.  
 
Kansas is not much more than smoke and mirrors.  Most of teh "new jobs" that have been created were made up of folks like my ex wife....she's self employed (a realtor).  She's been that way for 20 years that she's lived here.  But under the governors tax plan...LLC's paid no income tax.  And due to a loophole in that law, pass thru income isn't taxed.  But the BEST part is - when my ex became an LLC, it went in the books as a "new job".  Only THIS new job resulted in reduction of tax revenues for the state, since she's one of the lucky individuals who pays no Kansas income tax. Because while she took the tax cut...after all, anything to save a buck....she didn't hire anybody.   And a lot of the "new jobs" that Rex likes to point to came from tax breaks that got companies to literally move across the street, from the Missouri side of State Line Road to the Kansas side.  
 
And he mentions Johnson County (where I live).  Yep... a lot of people opt to live here.  But a surprising number of them WORK in Missouri.  They picked Johnson County NOT because of the taxes, but because of the schools.  Schools that Brownback and the republicans have slashed the funding.  Pretty soon, there won't be a compelling reason to move to the Kansas side.   
 
Here's some more stuff from my Republican legislator:
 
https://t.e2ma.net/webview/tzemj/b4af14dd98d602558eb7f1c28fcf4614

 

[delldude]

The man with the sausage schnozzola has reached an establishment low in Colorado.
 

“This needs to be a wake up call for Americans,” said Texas resident Dan Golvach. “We have been sleep walking into a third world tyranny with the two main parties. This also shows you who Ted Cruz has crawled into bed with politically speaking… He’s nothing more than a poster boy for the plutocrats. I have no use for him or the plutocrat media complex that has been pushing these type of candidates on us.”    http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/11/victims-illegal-alien-crime-sham-colorado-cruz-win-third-world-tyranny/

 
He shouldn't have taken those delegates but you know that will never happen. Trump will capitalize on this move by GOP and Ted. This issue may bode very well for Trump and turn voters.
 
 

 

Calling the Colorado Republican Party’s decision not to hold a primary popular vote a scandal, talk-radio host Michael Savage declared Sen. Ted Cruz should disavow the move and call for a vote.
“What just happened in Colorado should, frankly, disqualify Cruz, who claims to be a constitutional conservative,” Savage told his listeners Monday.
Savage is a strong supporter of GOP front-runner Donald Trump, who has been a regular guest on “The Savage Nation.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/michael-savage-to-cruz-renounce-colorado-result/#sVdeBExxBgBzX7zp.99
 

 
This could turn out to be a huge mistake with voter wrath.
 

From James– Included is my letter to the Colorado GOP head and his reply.
Hope this helps expose the diabolical bastards scheming to steal the nomination. Though I told him I live in Colorado I really live in N.J. and I’ll be voting for Trump on June 7th, it’ll be a landslide victory for “The Donald” here in Garden State, a friggin’ landslide.
 
 
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/colorado-gop-leader-disgruntled/
 
 
 

 
Hillary bought all those super delegate votes, GOP is trying to kill Trump, Colorado pulls this crap.
 
We the people have lost our country.
 

 

[CMH_GSE]

Delldude, I get it , you're a trumpster.

I'm curious why there wasn't a bitching and wining campaign over the Colorado caucus rules last year, you know, when all the candidates knew what the rules were there?

I hear Trump saying all over the Trump News Network "whoever has the MOST delegates should be the nominee".

I say, let's examine the history of the Republican nominating process.

The rule of requiring MAJORITY of delegates (in this case, it's 1237), has been a rule since the beginning in the 1800's.

Here is a great example of why the rule of a majority of delegates is a good thing and shouldn't be changed.

http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/nomination.htm

Take a few minutes and read the story of the 1860 convention, where Lincoln went into the convention way behind Seward in delegates, 173 to 102.5 on the first ballot.

Everyone knew the rules going in, and the candidate that prepared the best and worked the room the best won the nomination.

Trump claims to be a deal closer, a brokered convention should be in his wheel house, further, the Colorado delegate convention should have been in his wheel house.
Yet, all we've been getting from the great deal closer is wining and bitching.

I'm not giving a nod to the process that Colorado has chosen to select delegates, but the rules are the rules.
If you want to play big boy politics, you better know them and proceed accordingly.

Cruz is obviously very well read on the delegate rules and of the history of the nominating process and has run rings around the Trump campaign were a ground game is necessary.

 

[delldude]

You got it wrong.
 
These actions just sleaze any good views I hold of Cruz.
 
Apparently 1 million Colorado voters hold a different opinion than you.

 

[CMH_GSE]

Rules are rules.

Read the link about 1860, it's a fascinating read, was Lincoln sleazy?

 

[delldude]

Do you think if this Colorado GOP move was advertised last year, they'd only be going off the deep end now?
 
Ad did you notice the neat little way GOP meets before the convention to set the rules so people like Ron Paul and Donald Trump can be 'eliminated'?
 
Party CYA

 

[CMH_GSE]

The fact remains, the rule of requiring a MAJORITY of delegates NOT just a plurality, has always been the rule.

There's no reason to change it, certainly not because the Donald doesn't think it's fair.

 

[CMH_GSE]

I'll ask again, was Lincoln sleazy in 1860?

 

[delldude]

Donald isn't the only one.
 
GOP will be the ones with a bullet hole in their shoe.