Conservative firebrand Ted Cruz launches political convention with crowd-pleasing demand to abolish the IRS
- Cruz is a Texas senator and likely presidential candidate
- He wants to replace the IRS with a smaller agency that would collect postcard-sized income tax returns based on a flat tax rate
- Cruz also wants to 'repeal every word of Obamacare'
- President Obama said on Super Bowl Sunday that there was 'not a smidgen of corruption' in an IRS scandal involving the targeting of tea party groups
- 'You keep on using this word,' Cruz retorted, channeling a character from The Princess Bride. 'I do not think it means what you think it means.'
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Ted Cruz, the rock-ribbed conservative Texas senator who figures to be a factor in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, told thousands of conservatives Thursday morning that the IRS should go the way of the dodo.
'We need to abolish the IRS,' he said, calling instead for a flat income tax rate and a user-friendly tax return that can be filed on a postcard.
That verbal gauntlet, thrown as much at a near-century of tax collection as at the Obama administration, was Cruz's biggest applause line.
'By virtue of your being here today,' he jokingly cautioned the nation's largest annual gathering of politically conservative activists, 'tomorrow each and every one of you is going to be audited by the IRS.'
On Wednesday the former IRS official in charge of vetting nonprofit groups that seek tax-exempt charitable status refused, for the second time, to tell a congressional committee what she knew about the scandal.
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Sen. Ted Cruz, the conservative pit bull who will likely run for president in 2016, demanded the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday
Fear of government is a unifying concept at CPAC, wth Ted Cruz leading the charge to de-fang Washington's ability to use the tax code as a weapon
Lois Lerner claimed the Constitution's Fifth Amendment afforded the right to remain silent, despite a party-line ruling from the House Oversight Committee that she waived that privilege by offering a lengthy opening statement in a May 2013 hearing.
More than 200 right-wing organizations, mostly those linked to the tea party movement, sat in limbo for as many as three years while the IRS dithered and held them up during two election cycles.
The agency is now moving toward new regulations that would allow it to codify the secret rules it used to screen out conservative organizations while quickly green-lighting liberals.
During a Super Bowl Sunday interview with Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly, President Barack Obama insisted that there was 'not even a smidgen of corruption' in his administration related to the controversy.
Channeling a character in the 1987 cult classic movie The Princess Bride, Cruz mocked the president for his choice of words.
'You keep on using this word,' he said, referring to 'smidgen.'
'I do not think it means what you think it means.'
The Conservative Political Action Conference, held near Washington, D.C. in suburban Maryland, will host a cavalcade of right-wing speakers, many of whom are likely to run for president in 2016.
In his own back yard: President Barack Obama is under withing attacks as the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gets underway near Washington, D.C.
The Conservative Political Action Conference brings together a mishmash of military and foreign policy hawks, evangelical Christians, college Republican activists, campaign strategists and media organizations every year
Cruz seemed to be tightening and road-testing a stump speech himself, advocating for the repeal of the Dodd-Frank banking law, safeguards to buttress the Second Amendment's gun rights, expanding school choice, permanently banning former members of Congress from lobbying their old colleagues, instituting term limits for federal legislators, and
auditing the Federal Reserve.
auditing the Federal Reserve.
That line drew a rousing shout from acolytes of former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a one-time perennial presidential candidate whose libertarian following has picked up with Paul's son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, right where it left off.
Cruz knows that he must appeal to that subset of the Republican Party, which opposes government surveillance programs as well as centralized control of the U.S. money supply.
He asked everyone in the audience with a cell phone to 'please leave them on. I want to make sure President Obama hears everything I have to say.'
But the Republican party's more traditional conservatives are his meat and potatoes crowd.
Leading off the first day of the CPAC convention, he nearly brought a giant ballroom to its feet with a demand that Congress must 'repeal every single word of Obamacare.'
Former IRS official Lois Lerner (L) refused Wednesday to answer questions from Congress about the tea party targeting scandal; Pennsylvania Sen. Patrick Toomey (R) said Thursday that Americans 'need to stand up to a president who don't think the laws of America apply to him'
Piggybacking on conservative disgust with the Obama administration's steady stream of alterations to the Affordable Care Act's legislated series of deadlines, Cruz took a direct pot-shot at the occupant of the Oval Office.
'If you have a president who is picking and choosing which laws to follow and which laws to ignore, you no longer have a president,' said Cruz.
Pennsylvania Sen. Patrick Toomey followed him at the podium with a similar slam. 'We need to stand up to a president who don't think the laws of America apply to him,' Toomey told the crowd.
CPAC's attendees are disproportionately young, with College Republicans chapters and church youth groups appearing Thursday morning by the hundreds.
'Millions have lost hope,' Cruz told them, 'because under president Obama, the American dream is harder and harder to achieve. ... If you were to sit down and design a plan to hammer the living daylights out of young people, you couldn't do better than the Obama economic plan.'
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5 comments:
Maybe Obama and the Cabal want to keep Christianity in place and have government officials to take an Oath to Swear on the Holy Bible as there are some Scriptures that can be used Against the people.
Hitler was a Christian as his favorite verse I heard about was:
Matthew 22:21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
So we are to pay 100% of our wages to Caesar as we are paid in Federal Reserve Notes and NOTHING ELSE!
Within 60 days 310 million Americans would die of starvation and NO MORE THINGS to give to Caesar, so let us promote this?
It's amazing to me, how someone who ISN'T A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN, as is the case with the current usurper, is called a firebrand. He may be a great leader for the cause of liberty and freedom but, the requirement of NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP remains, for one who would be President of this nation. Oh...by the way....this is America, which just happens to consist of a group of states, who chose to unite for the benefit of its people, in a corporate manner. We are not a corporation but, we can cooperate and function in a way that is beneficial to all.
This is nothing more than a politician trying to gain favor. A flat rate income tax has been talked about for years but you can be sure it will never happen. Nothing new here.
We just need to abolish the UNITED STATES federal government corporation. As for the IRS it is a corporation too and supposedly a government agency just like the Federal Reserve which neither are government agencies. As far as the IRS goes it has no more authority to tax anyone's wages, salaries, tips, etc. than Microsoft Corp. or Safeway Corp. Corporations can collect sales tax in states that have a sales tax but not income tax. That goes for the UNITED STATES Corporation too. Think about it. The Constitution is a dog and pony show to the UNITED STATES federal government corporation. They try to make the people believe that they are trying to adhere to the constitution when it doesn't apply to the US, Inc. any more than Microsoft or Safeway or any other corporation.
There is no need for any tax as the government makes so much money on their investments as it can pay for all taxes and cover all unfunded liabilities with a lot leftover. CAFR1.com
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