Sen Cruz's (Texas) Newsletter

Open email to Sen. Cruz (Texas):

Dear Sen. Cruz,
    I watched your father on UTube and can see where you received excellent basic training.
    Thank you also for recognizing the background and unusual nature of the United States government as compared to the rest of the world. It is undoubtedly still the best, but sadly has been significantly adulterated in the past 50 years. We will depend on you to try to return it to its former grandeur.
    With respect to your position on abolishing the IRS and instituting the Flat Tax or Fair Tax., I agree in part. We do not need the complication of the present IRS tax code. It must be radically simplified, and the Flat Tax or Fair Tax may do that. However, the main purpose of the IRS has been to collect tax money, and as long as taxes will be paid by the American public to the federal government, some mechanism must be available to collect that money. I agree the organization should be changed, and you may want to change the name, but you will still need an organization to receive federal taxes.
    I'm also not sure what you hope to accomplish by collecting anecdotal email information concerning IRS abuses, unless you plan to use that collective public position to influence your Senate Associates toward the IRS abolition. That seems like a stretch, and you may be wasting your time, when some more effective methods could be developed. I believe you already have strong support from Texans, through your Senate actions to date, and likely do not need a vote of confidence.
    "Depending Faith and Freedom" is an excellent slogan and a basis on which I have already seen you operate. Everything you do in your job should be geared toward that objective, but there is a danger in over-accenting it.. Religious faith is a strong tenet in the minds of the American public in spite of the actions of atheists in recent years, but the religious fight can be left to preachers and religious groups. I believe you can show your support and do whatever you can in government to make their programs easier, but if you try to lead the pack, you will be unable to accomplish what is likely your long-term goal of reestablishing the grandeur of the America.
    With respect to federal regulations and the explosion thereof, I believe you have put your finger on a fundamental federal government problem. Most regulations unnecessarily hamper the average American's freedom and hinders economic development, including job formation. The recent Obama Care law is an excellent example of that inhibition. Congress set up the various federal agencies to apply laws and those agencies have almost universally exceeded their authority and imposed unnecessary regulations, while Congress has turned a blind eye to the abuse. It is well past time for Congress to bring the whole administrative process back into the folds of original Congressional intentions.
    I also heard within the past day or so a Fox News announcement that the latest Congress is being accused of being a "Do-Nothing Congress", with an implication that "doing nothing" has a negative connotation. I completely disagree. It is obvious to me that every law that is passed is basically a restriction, and if we accumulate restrictions year after year through those laws, we eventually become so bound up in the legal tangles of government and law enforcement that our society can no longer operate in a productive manner. The only way I agree with new laws is that they start to direct attention to old laws which are unnecessarily restrictive and should be eliminated or modified. In essence, I strongly suggest that you do your best to reduce regulations and eliminate old laws, rather than merely slow their growth. This is the same philosophy that should also be applied to federal expenditures. Do not just limit growth of expenditures; rather strongly reduce expenditures..