Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio keep mixing it up on the merits of a flat tax. Cruz wants one, and Rubio says it will lead to higher rates later and make America look like Europe. A Rubio super PAC disingenuously slams the Cruz flat tax as “a Canadian-style tax.” There are many versions of […]
The misguided valued-added tax seems like a magic money-making bullet to the nation’s deficit problems. The Tax Foundation estimates that Sen. Ted Cruz’s 16% VAT would net $25 trillion over the next decade. Sen. Rand Paul proposes a 14.5% “business activity tax” that would operate much like a European value-added tax, or VAT. But once […]
If Ted Cruz holds on to his slim lead in Iowa, he may be the first politician in ages in either party to win the Hawkeye presidential caucuses without supporting federal ethanol supports. Cruz has been under constant assault from the ethanol lobby to get behind the mandates that ethanol be blended into gasoline. The […]
I am sure if I tell you that this election season has been different than many others, you may think I am talking about the impact Donald Trump’s campaign is having on the current landscape. But that’s not what I am thinking about. This election year, unlike any other in recent memory, every Republican candidate […]
Marco Rubio is trying to turn Ted Cruz into Rand Paul. So far this effort is failing. Senator Paul has been portrayed as an isolationist. He says he is actually a realist who merely wants to limit our foreign interventions to those serving the national interest. But the description of him as out of step […]