Subject: RE: Video Request: Cruz in Williamsport, PA
From: "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bennett, Eric" <[email-masked]>, Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:29:28 -0700

It's literally not "free stuff"

Q: on minimum wage and why it is a bad idea

A: The minimum wage. Politicians love giving away free stuff. The first principle of economics - there ain't no such thing as a free stuff. Everything the government gives to you, it has to take. Goes on to talk about how he gave a Senate floor speech on President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage to 10.10 explaining how it would kills jobs and hurt the most vulnerable. The real Obama minimum wage is 0 dollars, he says he explained during his Senate floor speech.

From: Bennett, Eric
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 11:17 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Cruz in Williamsport, PA

Key points from stump and Q&A --

The war on coal is wrong and it's destroying jobs. If I'm president, the war and coal will end and the so-called Clean Power Plan will be rescinded.
The federal government will have no authority over fracking whatsoever.
Cruz: What does HRC want to do? She wants to take the New York rules and end jobs in the state of PA.
Again hits Trump for his comments on the NC anti-LGBT bill.

Q&A

Q: What are your tax policies and does it differ?

A: For a family of 4, on the first 36,000 you pay nothing. Above 36,000, you play a simple flat tax of 10%. No longer do the hedge fund billionaires pay a lower rate than their secretaries. You can will out your taxes on a postcard. We abolish the corporate income tax, death tax, Obamacare tax and the payroll tax. That will be replaced with a 16% business tax. On imports, the business flat tax is border adjustable, which means that exports are 100% tax free. All imports are taxed 16%. That will bring millions of new high paying manufacturing jobs back to America. Donald Trump has a tax plan, I'm not sure he ever read it. Notes how Donald Trump noted that he would raise taxes, which contradicts his tax plan.

**Stream cuts out**

Question about leaders inspiring him.

A: Names 3. I have a bust a Churchill, Reagan and Martin Luther King. I have a bust of those three because all three stood for principle and spoke for truth. They took on the establishment and the power structure. All three changed the world. Two took bullets. Notes how Churchill demonstrated courage. Says Democrats like to leave out the Dr. King was a reverend. Cruz: Reagan led the effort to defeat the Soviet Union.  I believe 2016 will be another reflection point in history.

Q: couldn't hear

A: I wrote my senior thesis on the 9th and 10th amendments. The 10th amendment says any powers not given to the states are reserved for the people. If I'm elected president, I will instruct the DOE that common core ends today. Ideally, what we should do is abolish the federal department of education. We need to block grant that money back to the states. Education is too important - parents of PA know what's best than some unelected bureaucrats. Obama education department litigation against a school to try and force them to allow boys to shower with girls.

Q: couldn't hear

A: On forced abortions in China, it's one of the greatest challenges in modern times. China has aborted over 3 million little boys and girls. I introduced an amendment that says the U.S. should cut its funding as long as any member nation had a policy of forced abortions. There was a time when PA Governor Casey was pro-life. Hits Dems for voting against his amendment.

Q: on minimum wage and why it is a bad idea

A: The minimum wage. Politicians love giving away free stuff. The first principle of economics - there ain't no such thing as a free stuff. Everything the government gives to you, it has to take. Goes on to talk about how he gave a Senate floor speech on President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage to 10.10 explaining how it would kills jobs and hurt the most vulnerable. The real Obama minimum wage is 0 dollars, he says he explained during his Senate floor speech.

From: Bennett, Eric
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:11 AM
To: Research_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Cruz in Williamsport, PA

http://abcnews.go.com/Live

From: Bennett, Eric
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 9:49 AM
To: Research_D
Subject: Video Request: Cruz in Williamsport, PA

10:00 AM town hall.