Actually, this post is about the Iowa caucus. I was talking about how badly right wingers manage with numbers. I'm a Democrat so I'll get more serious about Cruz if he gains the nomination. Some of the things you say you like about him though are kind of dumb, like his tax plan.
No Payroll tax
No estate tax
No corporate income tax
16% "business tax" -- basically a 16% sales tax
10% Flat tax
He proposes cutting taxes on the wealthy and raising taxes on you and me, assuming you are not rich. On balance, he's cutting taxes overall by many trillions of dollars ($4T to $16T) over the forthcoming decade of a Cruz plan. All of this without offsetting tax cuts with spending cuts. Under his "plan", workers of the US will pay a lot more in the form of sales taxes and see the deficit go up.
Republicans LOVE LOVE LOVE tax cuts but ignore that ugly little fact that without spending cuts, these aren't really tax cuts, they are deferred taxes in the form of debt. So, no, I think Cruz in this arena is just a bad re-run of Bush Jr .
Opposed to tariffs? Again, what is he doing to offset this in the form of spending cuts?
Opposed to raising the minimum wage? Is this somehow going to do something helpful to the economy that makes up for his tax cuts? Skeptical, I am. Counter to right wing thinking, its a myth that a raise in the minimum tax hurts employment.
As far as his evangelical Christian-backers like Dobson go, well, if they are for him, I'm against him. Its too early to tell but I'm skeptical that Cruz can avoid being pulled to the right on these issues, such as the repeal of Roe V Wade, cutting funds to Planned Parenthood, Gay rights and such.
But I'm a Democrat, through and through. You guys pick your candidate and I'll compare him against ours.
