The Cruz Surge

[bobabode]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mepage%2Fstory
"Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s plan to impose a flat 10 percent tax on all personal income and greatly lower the corporate tax rate would cost the federal government at least $8.6 trillion over a decade, according to a new analysis." Wapo


So much for funding the gubmint by titheing.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I like her policies just fine, but her integrity, judgment and ability to stay out of jail are all suspect.

As the Republicans say, "You might as well lay back and enjoy it".

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by bobabode

As the Republicans say, "You might as well lay back and enjoy it".

I think that what she told Bill to do with Monica.

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I think that what she told Bill to do with Monica.

"Come in here, Monica, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it if you try;"

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I think that what she told Bill to do with Monica.

Word is she told him to stand there and take it like a man.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

"Come in here, Monica, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it if you try;"

I used to like The Floyd.

[Rajoo]

The Ted Cruz tax plan:

Meanwhile, under Cruz’s plan, the top 0.1 percent of income earners would see their tax burden reduced 23 percent. Middle-income households would receive an average 2.4 percent tax cut, while the lowest earners would actually see their payments increase by about 1 percent, according to the analysis.

And where have we heard this before?

Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler criticized the center’s analysis, which he said fails to account for the massive economic growth that would be spurred by Cruz’s plan. He pointed to a competing analysis by the conservative Tax Foundation, which concluded Cruz’s plan would grow the nation’s economy by nearly 14 percent over the next decade and add 5 million new jobs.

Note we are talking about a massive economic growth here!
Wonder who put him up to this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...231_story.html

[Tom Joad]

Like I've said before, I don't put much stock in one poll. I suspect this is an outlier.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pres...j-poll-n520296

Surprise: Trump Falls Behind Cruz in National NBC/WSJ Poll

[Wasillaguy]

I think one of Cruz's biggest problems is that he sounds like a preacher. Same thing Obama does, except Obama is better at it. The slow cadence with long pauses between sentences suggests these clowns think they are saying something profound and they need to give us time to soak it in. This works for some, for a while, but there comes a point where it's off-putting to the thinking person.
Funny how many folks who would never sit and listen to an actual preacher, will gobble up the same kind of crap from a politician.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

I think one of Cruz's biggest problems is that he sounds like a preacher. Same thing Obama does, except Obama is better at it. The slow cadence with long pauses between sentences suggests these clowns think they are saying something profound and they need to give us time to soak it in. This works for some, for a while, but there comes a point where it's off-putting to the thinking person.
Funny how many folks who would never sit and listen to an actual preacher, will gobble up the same kind of crap from a politician.

Politicians are experts at selling themselves to the voting public with very good powers of persuasion and coercion. Preachers on the other hand are selling a myth that some may find hard to believe or accept.