LPA Foundation

Issues Forum: Marco Rubio

Advisor Veronique de Rugy

Advisor Veronique de Rugy - LPA Foundation Policy Advisor

Cruz Slays the Ethanol Dragon

February 5, 2016

Whatever one thinks of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, when it comes to fighting against the unhealthy marriage of government and big companies (also known as cronyism), he has been more principled and courageous than all of the other remaining candidates in this race. Case in point: Even though on the campaign trail in Iowa, and in […]

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Advisor Stephen Moore

Advisor Stephen Moore - LPA Foundation Policy Advisor

The Rubio-Cruz Flat Tax Spat

January 20, 2016

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 […]

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Health Care

Health Care

Question Hour (make that ‘Minute’) for Republican candidates on health policy

January 20, 2016

Let the debate among Republican presidential candidates on health policy and how to replace Obamacare begin! It doesn’t appear to have started yet. Last week’s seven-candidate debate hosted by the Fox Business Network once again found much to discuss in terms of national security issues, immigration law enforcement, even a little economic policy, and, of […]

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Taxes

Taxes

Ted Cruz’s VAT Plan Is A Raw Deal For Middle Class Families

January 19, 2016

[My tax plan] gives every American a simple, flat tax of 10%. Marco [Rubio’s] top tax rate is 35%. My tax plan enables you to fill out your taxes on a postcard so we can abolish the IRS. Marco leaves the IRS code in with all of the complexity. We need to break the Washington […]

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Taxes

Taxes

What the Ted Cruz–Marco Rubio tax war is all about

January 13, 2016

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have been battling hard over immigration, each hoping to become the clear Republican presidential favorite once GOP voters awake from their Trumpian fever dream. Now a new front is emerging between the two candidates: Begun the tax wars have! Of course to Democrats, the idea of Republicans fighting over taxes […]

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