Ted Cruz: Campaign Issues
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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Where he stands
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Budget/Deficit/Taxes
- Wants a balanced budget amendment
- Calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve and its actions on mortgage loans
- Wants to limit federal spending growth to per-capita inflation rate
- Would abolish the IRS
- Against any tax increase
- Wants to eliminate the inheritance tax
- Would repeal tax hikes in capital gains and death tax
- Supports Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- In favor of a single-rate tax-system
Immigration
- Would defund amnesty and refuse any nominees until rescinded
- Wants no path to citizenship for the 1.65 million illegals in Texas
- In favor of a wall on the border of Mexico
- Wants to strengthen border security and increase enforcement
Energy/Environment
- Voted no on protecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems
- Fights against Gulf moratorium on offshore exploration
- Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge
- Believes Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures
- Wants to explore proven energy reserves to keep energy prices low
- Would let states lease energy rights on federal lands
Foreign Policy
- Wants more sanctions against Putin, to help eastern Ukraine
- America's allies need our leadership
- America is indispensable
- Believes the United States has a responsibility to defend our values abroad
Domestic Issues
- Against public abortion funding
- Believes companies should be able to deny insuring birth control
- Against churches providing birth control
- Wants to define traditional marriage
- Against same-sex marriage and gay pride parades
- Wants to appeal the Affordable Care Act
- Is in favor of market-based health insurance
- More from Campaign 2016
—Jennie Wood
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