Ted Cruz renews call for flat tax

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz reiterated his support for a flat tax on Monday, arguing that “Tax Freedom Day” comes “way too late.”

“It collapses the existing seven individual rates into one flat rate of 10% for everyone, abolishes the IRS as we know it, and dismantles the Washington Cartel by cutting off their access to the tax code as a political weapon,” Cruz wrote in an editorial for USA Today.

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