Slight problem. From an earlier thread admittedly from the NY Slimes, but hard to ignore
“TED CRUZ noted his just-announced tax plan involved “the lowest personal rate any candidate up here has. That’s true: His plan calls for a 10 percent flat personal income tax rate. But that’s not where his plan gets most of its tax revenue.
The biggest tax in his plan is a 16 percent value added tax. Mr. Cruz describes this tax as a business flat tax, but it’s not a tax on business profits. Businesses would pay the tax on their total sales, minus the cost of the things they bought to produce the thing they sold. They would not be able to deduct wages, meaning they would pay the 16 percent tax on an amount far greater than their profits. The conservative Tax Foundation estimates this tax would generate $25 trillion in revenue over a decade, making it about six times bigger than the existing corporate income tax, which Mr. Cruz would repeal, and more than twice as big as his proposed personal income tax.
Added up across the whole economy, Mr. Cruz’s VAT would be equivalent to a very broadly based sales tax, applying even to services like health care that are ordinarily exempt from sales taxes. Like a sales tax, this tax would be built into prices and paid by consumers†and for many lower-income households, it would be a far greater burden than the income tax.
Between this proposal, his support of H1 visa 6 fold expansion and his votes for TPA which hamstrings congress in avoiding agreements that would be deleterious to America
the bloom is off the Cruz rose for me and I think he may be presenting himself as a conservative while participating in the sale of his soul to the business cartels.
This doesn’t sound good to me either. Can someone compare it with Trump’s plan—or have we seen that yet?
What Cruz is doing is putting a sales tax companies and scrapping corporate income tax. I am still studying.
Also, if Cruz eliminates the payroll tax, then companies would see a payroll tax cut of 7% on wages...
That’s mentioned in the article, but their analysis is different, as far as I can tell.