Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’

Washington Post ^ | june 3 | By Rachel Weiner

[upchuck]

If I screw up I don’t mind admitting it and doing what I can to correct the error.

I screw up a lot.

[muawiyah]

You used him as an example ....... worst possible example in my opinion.

[PowderMonkey]

Jeepers. You talk too much.

[celmak]

There are a lot of good ideas here. I just hope any of the ones that reduces the IRS happen.

[SandwicheGuy]

Or a flat tax. I don’t care.... Set it at 20% and that’s it.

Well, if God himself only gets 10%, a tithe, I don't see why the our government should get more than 10%. 'Course that means for everyone, on welfare, disabilty, SS, all. Talk about some people not only with skin in the game, but nothing to do but look for government savings.

[OneWingedShark]

This is how republicans get the label as STUPID AND OUT OF TOUCH...geez. Most people know you have to collect a tax to run a government, cleaning up a bad hospital, an oil spill or a bad pilot in the Air Force does not mean you DESTROY it or get rid of it...YOU FIX IT!!

The IRS is about the income tax; the US has not always had an income tax (the 16th amendment was needed); therefore there must be some other way for revenue to be collected.

[rolling_stone]

There is more than one way to skin a cat...

[q_an_a]

so we will end the 16th...get real. That ship has sailed. To fix what has been chipped away little by little since FDR takes a much better plan than abolish the IRS. We have to chip away little by little showing people waste waste waste and how that affects their lives.