Ted Cruz on Education

Summary

In an October 2011 debate, SG Cruz stated that the federal government needed to return to its constitutionally defined role and that he supported eliminating the Department of Education.

 

Wedgewood Church Debate

In October of 2011, SG Cruz participated in a debate at the Wedgewood church. When speaking about his overall views, he spoke about his support for the tenth amendment and returning the federal government to the role defined in the constitution.

I have spent a life time fighting to defend the constitution and to defend the 10th amendment. We need to get the federal government out of areas it doesn't have the constitutional authority to do. We need to eliminate the department of education, we need to eliminate the department of commerce, we need to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts. We need to eliminate the IRS and move to a flat tax or a fair tax.

Most fundamentally, we need to get back to the tenth amendment, to the idea that our constitution serves as Thomas Jefferson put it, "chains to bind the mischief of government," and to get the politicians out of our lives.

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