Ted Cruz Visits N.H., Vows To Abolish IRS And Education Department
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Source: AP
BY PHILIP ELLIOTT
LINCOLN, N.H. (AP) -- Ahead of his expected presidential campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz is banking on his hopes that rural New Hampshire voters and his home state of Texas share a similarly dour view of government.
He is promising to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and scrap the Education Department. He vows to curtail federal regulators, likening to locusts that deserve to be killed. And his standard campaign-style speech includes a zinger about the Second Amendment.
"I'm pretty sure, here in New Hampshire, y'all define gun control like we do down in Texas: gun control is when you hit what you aim at," Cruz said Sunday during the first of a two-day visit to New Hampshire.
It's all part of the pitch Cruz is making to rural voters, here in New Hampshire and in other early nominating states with vast stretches of farms and forests. All candidates make such efforts, and frequent stops at county fairs and farm stands will be a staple of campaign schedules by the time there are declared candidates.
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a tea party favorite and possible presidential candidate in 2016, speaks to Paul Horvath, of Somersworth, N.H., during a visit to the Strafford County Republican Committee Chili and Chat on Sunday, March 15, 2015, in Barrington, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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heaven05
(18,124 posts)for this POS is the same...
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)That mountain man doesn't seem to be very jolly.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)his flat tax will cost them more.
rickford66
(5,532 posts)And isn't he still a Canadian?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)father founding
(619 posts)Doesn't the Education Dept. give Texas the right to chose textbooks for the whole country, resulting in the loss of jobs for Texans, and where is the oil industry going to get their enormous subsidies from, without the taxpayers ?
Corey_Baker08
(2,157 posts)I would like to think that his extreme views such as these will not go over well with more moderate conservatives in the GOP Primary & he will quickly exit the race.
He's like a clone of batshit Bachman & if I'm correct she was one of the first to withdrawal from the 2012 Republican Primary...
He makes me sick.
Bartlet
(172 posts)Even his own Republican party thinks he's a dimwit. Thank God he's not smart enough to keep his mouth shut, he might actually have a chance of beating out Huckabee for last place in the polls if he did.