The Latino vote will be a walk in the park for Cruz and judging by the Libertarian love he has on this board , he has their vote tagged and bagged also. Omg . . .Hillary and the Dems finished.:eek:.
Cruz would be a God-send. Abolish the IRS? Flat tax??? Americans are generally losers. Sad to say. Being easily conned, they vote Authortarians into office, every 4 years. Hillary?!?! LOL Obama....the "constitutional scholar" from Harvard.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...h-insurance-says-bombshell-budget-report.html
Cruz cannot be forgiven for not knowing what he's doing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Cruz Plan Could Weaken The Enforcement Of Iran Sanctions WASHINGTON -- Just days after announcing his presidential bid, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is pushing legislation that would wildly escalate the Republican Party's deregulatory fervor. On Wednesday, Cruz filed a simple but sweeping budget amendment that would "eliminate all criminal penalties for offenses established by agency regulations" -- a clause that covers everything from environmental rules to sanctions against Iran. The amendment would eliminate a tremendous amount of corporate crime -- not by getting rid of the wrongdoing itself, but by simply reclassifying the violations as strictly civil, rather than criminal. Many regulations carry only civil penalties, but others carry criminal penalties as well, allowing the Department of Justice to prosecute companies and individuals for those violations. Regulatory agencies write rules to implement laws passed by Congress. The GOP has been pursuing a broad and aggressive deregulation agenda for several years. A host of Republicans have introduced bills designed to hamstring regulators with additional red tape when issuing rules, and to make it harder for agencies to impose costs on companies in the pursuit of the public good. Cruz's legislation goes much further, and would have effects far beyond the typical GOP targets of Obamacare, the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law and the Environmental Protection Agency's coal standards. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, for instance, is the agency responsible for administering sanctions against Iran. Those sanctions generally bar U.S. companies or individuals from doing business with Iranian firms or Iranian officials. Violating the sanctions can be either a civil or a criminal offense, with criminal penalties including a fine of up to $1 million and 20 years in prison. If Cruz's budget plan were implemented, it would eliminate those criminal penalties, weakening the sanctions regime. In a Monday speech announcing his presidential run, Cruz billed himself as a hard-liner on Iran. He was also one of the 47 Republican senators who signed a controversial letter to Iranian leaders organized by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) earlier this month. Cruz's office declined to comment for this article, but the senator probably doesn't actually want to see weaker penalties for sanctions violations. And in all likelihood, the Cruz amendment won't ever be implemented. It's a nonbinding budget resolution, rather than a final appropriations decree, and it may not even receive a vote on the Senate floor. If a measure to defund the criminal enforcement of regulatory standards ever did become part of a final appropriations bill, President Barack Obama would likely kill it with a veto. Nevertheless, it's a pretty wild way for Cruz to follow up on his official entrance to the 2016 field.
%%%%%%%%%%%% That was funny,LOL; but not very accurate.Plenty , plenty of media + RINOs hated Democrat turned annointed Republican Ronald Reagan. PS That same publication has headline Is ''American Sniper Antiwar??'' That can be a good sign; hatred by antiwar, anti-Christian, anti-conservative anti-capitalist, anti-common sense media .
I don't believe this is accurate. Typically, congress passes a law that sets up criminal penalties but leaves it to the agencies to set up the specific standards. I think what Cruz is targetting is more the concept that agencies can basically enact their own laws, without congress getting invovled. Some of the laws setting up agencies like the EPA or FTC are so broad that they can justify all sorts of mischief.