Ted Cruz's blueprint for destroying America

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Ted Cruz's blueprint for destroying America

by Joan McCarter at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/18/1471404/-Ted-Cruz-s-blueprint-for-destroying-America

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•The Department of Energy would also be toast, mostly it seems because Cruz really wants to fire a bunch of public employees, saying it would save the country $500 billion (because apparently federal employees don't need to eat or have shelter or health care or jobs or money). Additionally, no regulation at all on the extraction and export of fossil fuels would be a bonus. Drill, baby, drill. Then export it and make as much money as possible while you can.

•Bye-bye Housing and Urban Development. He says some of the programs within HUD would be preserved, but doesn't say how when there's no agency to administer them. Details, details.

•The Internal Revenue Service would be "abolished" as a symbol of Washington bureaucracy. He says we should be able to do our taxes on a postcard or app on our phone. Apparently you don't need anyone to process that at the other end. It just magically goes from your phone to the treasury. Also, too, Cruz wants to abolish income and payroll taxes. You know what goes away when there aren't any payroll taxes? Yep, the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. That would be a really convenient way of abolishing those programs, wouldn't it.

•He'd reverse the Iran nuclear deal. We don't know if that also means he send the newly released hostages back or send crews in to take the concrete out of the nuclear reactors Iran just deactivated. Once again, details.


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