Thing. Fitbit. How many on the campaign trail . You spend a lot of time on planes, buses, cars and so, my count is embarrassingly low. The goal is 10,000 steps a day but crisscrossing the state that doesnt always happen. A lot is made and even last night, new york values. We have a governor in new york, andrew cuomo. And he popular man. Very popular guy. He actually talked about, well, those conservatives that are prolife and believe in the right to bear arms and that are antigay. Well, im not antigay. Im protraditional marriage. They have no place in new york. So, i said, well, okay. Im going to take my money and leave because we have a 10 state income tax. The phrase new york values was not my phrase. It was coming from donald trump initially. From an interview he gave with meet the press a number of years ago. He was explaining the support of partial birth abortions. He said im from new york. Theyre new york values. Not iowa values. The point you made a second ago. Last week, i was down in the bronx and was meeting with a number of hispanic and africanamerican pastors including a Democratic State senator, senator reuben diaz. Senator diaz is a pastor and mentioning, he brought up new york values. He brought up exactly what you said that cuomo said. He said my democratic governor, my party, told me if im prolife, support traditional marriage, if i believe in the Second Amendment theres no place for me in new york. Senator diaz said were fed you will with the values of liberal democrats intolerant to the common sense values of most of the men and women of new york. Yeah. You know i know that you know my background and i was born and raised in new york. I have a special place in my heart and we saw greatness out of the american people, the people of new york on 9 11. Oh yeah. Upstate helped long island helped. The entire country in fairness rallied around. There are so many good people here. Absolutely. But governing has been horrible in this state and especially up here in upstate new york and binghamton. They economically have been suffering for decades. Right. How do we how if youre elected president do you help them . Well, no one knows the negative consequences of liberal democratic policies more than the people of new york because theyve been suffering under them. Theyre seeing jobs going away. You know, a perfect example of those liberal Democratic Values is governor cuomo. Will not allow the people of new york to develop the mar sell les shale. In pennsylvania, the Property Values are going up. The shale extends here into new york and knucklehead politicians apparently think new yorkers dont want jobs. That doesnt make any sense. Highpaying jobs. They are highpaying jobs. We are seeing all across the country the Energy Renaissance and it is democratic politicians in new york and california where the resources are there but they wont allow us to develop them and the answer my number one priority as president is bringing jobs and Economic Growth back to this country, bringing highpaying jobs back to america. We are you mentioned the shale and pennsylvania. We are the saudi arabia. We are the middle east of natural gas. Yes. And it would have the added component of not begging countries that hate us for what is the economic powerhouse for our economy which is energy. We could become energy independent. How big is that a component in terms of economy and jobs and revenue for the country . Enormous component. A couple of years i gave a speech on the senate floor taking a map of the entire United States and every county color coded for whether Median Income gone up or down. That map looks almost exactly like a geological map of shale formati formations. I got a clear plastic overlay of the shale formations and you could see with the shales and you could see income spiking like lazy. In the mar sell les and the pennsylvania counties, Median Income through the roof and the line from new york to pennsylvania almost like the finger of god drew it counties on the other side of the line with the resources their income didnt go up. Just the same, monterey shale in california, the one exception was counties in and around washington, d. C. That were bright green that have gotten fat and happy and almost every other county in america, income stagnated or gone down. Do you think the skaudis artificially driven down the price of a barrel of oil to take away americas jobs . Right. Ultimately thats new york and pennsylvania. Sure, sure. Do you think they did it on purpose to drive natural gas businesses out of business . Well, thats certainly part of it. I think the saudis are flooding the market with oil. Another component, though, is the fed. We have had fed policy with a strong dollar, a weak dollar, a strong dollar, the weak dollar and those booms and busts right now an artificially strong dollar. That drives down the cost of commodities whether its the cost of oil and gas or whether its the cost of coal or whether its the cost of steel. Or whether if youre a farmer the cost of your crops. We need to have with Monetary Policy stability. Not a strong dollar. Not a weak dollar. But a stable and sound dollar. You know, i want to stay on this message of the economy for a minute because, you know, i actually have pointed out a cute little girl over there. I dont know if we can get a shot. You know, weve now doubled the National Debt for that little girl. Yep. We have now created an america where 95 million of our fellow americans are out of work. 46 million on food stamp. Double the debt. Why see any way out of this. Theyre now talking about negative Interest Rates and putting the money in the banks, the banks charge you to keep your money. Thats how bad things have gotten because of government involvement. Doing that in japan. They have negative Interest Rates in japan. How do we solve the debt . How do we get the jobs back and how quickly could it happen . Right. Elect cruz a very wise man. Only way to turn around the debt and the key to growth and the heart of the economy doesnt come from washington, d. C. It comes from Small Businesses all across this country. And the way you bring growth is you lift the boot of the federal government off the back of the necks of small business. Two thirds of all new jobs they come from Small Businesses so if im elected president we will repeal every word of brk. Obamacare. Well pass a simple flat tax and abolish the irs. Is a flat tax that is important question. A lot of people i have studied the flat tax and the fair tax. I like both ideas. But is it revenue neutral in terms of the government and can we do all of this, you know, Chris Christie running for office said Social Securitys gone. They already stole it. Do we have to touch entitlements . Social security and medicare. We can absolutely save and strengthen Social Security and medicare. We have got to. Theyre bullworks of our society and im campaigning on a clear reform plan to protect and save and strengthen them. If you look at the tax plan, that i have and i have a very, very clear and detailed plan, you can read about it on our website. Tedcruz. Org. Tedcruz. Org. Today is april 15th. Normally tax day. Lets celebrate. Sorry. Todays a good day to reflect on new ings will be different in just a couple of years if we win this election because my simple flat tax, for typical family of four, first 36,000 you earn you pay nothing. No tax. No nothing. If you dont pay a payroll tax, do you get Social Security benefits . Still get your Social Security ben filths. Now, above 36,000, everyone pays the same simple flat 10 tax. No longer do Hedge Fund Billionaires pay a lower efctive tax rate than the secretaries. Fair and even and uniform and then on the business side, eliminate the Corporate Income tax, the highest in the developed world. Eliminate the obamacare taxes. Eliminate the payroll taxes which are the biggest taxes most women and men pay and the death tax which is incredibly unfair. Thats uncorrupt. This came up in earlier debates. I know for most people here this is probably meaningless, i dont know how many of you know theres actually trillions, not millions or billions, trillions of dollars parked offshore that corporations will not bring back to the United States because of the high rate of taxes to pay. Corporate inversion. Yep. You can incentivize them. Repatriot money, lowering the rate. Wouldnt that create jobs and manufacturing and centers and trillions of dollars thrown into the economy . Absolutely yes. Thats what my tax plan does. Bring trillions of dollars back. Replace the business taxes instead with a simple 16 Business Flat Tax that is fair and uniform. No longer do giant corporations with armies of accountants pay less, little or no taxes and Small Businesses are hammered with a punitive 35 Corporate Income tax. You know, this raises so would they pay 16 to bring it back or a break so that we can encourage the building and Manufacturing Centers . Theres a onetime tax of 10 . Which would bring in trillions of dollars and what this plan will do, you know, the Nonpartisan Tax Foundation studied this plan and score everyones plans. They concluded that the cruz simple flat tax would produce 4. 9 million new jobs, would raise wages, raise after tax income for everybody and you know the average family, sean, under the cruz flat tax over the next decade would take home an additional 7,600. Thats real money when youre struggling to make ends meet. I spend i want to tell you how bad it is in new york. A decade of my life every job in a restaurant, dishwasher to bartender and being a waiter, ten years in contracting. Doing in the building trades, doing everything, laying tile, framing houses. In new york right now, i pay a 40 federal income tax. I pay 9. 9 state tax. 4 city tax, fica taxes. I live in nassau county. The second highest in the country. You live in texas. You dont pay that. That is exactly right. Isnt that insane . And i cant solve the problem of left wing democratic politicians like cuomo and bill deblasio. By the way, we call him comrade deblasio on this show. But what i can do is reduce the burdens of washington that are hammering Small Businesses so washington isnt making it harder and here in new york we will see jobs coming back from mexico, jobs coming back from china. See manufacturing jobs coming back to the state of new york. Its 62 cents of every dollar if you dont have the corporation and the tax benefits. All right. We are in binghamton, new york. Just getting things started. Are you having a good time . All right. Well continue with candidate ted cruz. Hes with us for the hour. What if one piece of kale could protect you from diabetes . What if one situp could prevent Heart Disease . One. Wishful thinking, right . But there is one step you can take to help prevent another serious disease. Pneumococcal pneumonia. If you are 50 or older, one dose of the prevnar 13® vaccine can help protect you from pneumococcal pneumonia, an illness that can cause coughing, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and may even put you in the hospital. Even if you have already been vaccinated with another pneumonia vaccine, prevnar 13® may help provide additional protection. Prevnar 13® is used in adults 50 and older to help prevent infections from 13 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. 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Does this go on forever or can we actually defeat isis and how do you do it . Well, you know put hillary in jail. You know, heidi and i lost a friend of ours, barbara olson. A friend of mine, too. She was on the plane that flew into the pentagon. From our apartment you could smell the soot and heidi at the time was working in the white house. And when those planes were coming in, at first the secret service came through and told everyone stay where you are. Dont go anywhere. But then, when the second plane hit, the secret service was running through the white house complex and saying get out now. Dont walk. Run. And so heidi ran out. They wouldnt let her get her car. And so, she wasnt able to drive home so she took off her high heels and walked across the bridge and walked home barefoot and i know there are people all across new york who experienced that. In d. C. And pennsylvania. And all across the country we have had terror attack after terror attack after terror attack, most recently in america in san bernardino. And in the wake of jihad, of radical islamic terrorists declaring the intention to murder as many of us as possible, i think there are a lot of americans who are fed up with the president who follows every terror attack going on tv, refusing to name our enemy and instead lecturing us on islamophobia. Id take it a step further. Then he talks about the terrible deeds done in the name of christ and yes. Has no real historical knowledge of the crusades were about. In brussels, hes doing the wave with communist murdering dictator raul castro and doing the tango. Well, and it did seem to really inconvenience the president to have a terror attack when he was in the middle of a baseball game with a communist dictator and, you know, it shouldnt be ill tell you. In watching president obama stand there on that stage with raul castro while castro slams the United States of america and then listening to president obama say, well, gosh, i agree with castro. Traitor is it asking too much to have a president actually defend the United States of america . That was embarrassing. It really was. But let me get back to isis. Yeah. Look. You used the phrase and criticized for it. I actually agree with you. You know, you said carpet bomb isis. Yes. You didnt say carpet bomb civilians. You said carpet bomb isis. Yeah. And theyre plotting and scheming and planning our demise. How do we find them and execute that . We start by using overwhelming air power. You know, in the first persian gulf war, a little over 25 years ago, we launched 2,500 air attacks a day. We did that for 37 days. And after 37 days, our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left. That is overwhelming air power. Can we do that in syria and iraq . We can. Now, right now, the Obama Administration has launched between 15 and 30 air attacks a day. I mean, its photoop and pin prick. It looks good on cnn. But it doesnt actually kill the enemy. I dont watch cnn but okay. Yeah. What we need to be doing instead is taking out their command and control. Taking out their infrastructure. Taking out the communication. Taking out their finances. Taking out the oil fields. Taking out the Oil Refineries and taking out their troops. Utterly and completely destroying them. We need to combine it with arming the kurds who are the boots on the ground. Theyre fighting right now. I also goes to the heart and the issue of this president started with 10,000. Hillary clinton wants tens and tens of thousands of Syrian Refugees. Heres the problem. You know, obamas former envoy to defeat isis general john allen, National Intelligence director james clapper, james comey, fbi adirector and chairman of the House Homeland SecurityCommittee Said isis just like paris and brussels will infiltrate the syrian population. Of course they will. How do we determine if theyre good people wanting better life or isis . We cant. And thats what you know, isis told us they intend to infiltrate the refugees. Paris, they infiltrated the refugees. James comey, head of the fbi, oi pointed by obama, told congress he cannot vet these Syrian Muslim refugees to determine if theyre isis terrorists. If im elected president , we are not going to be letting in middle eastern muslim refugees who be infiltrated with terrorists. Now, to those on the left that say, Hillary Clinton is out there in force saying, oh, thats unfair. I would support helping the Syrian Refugees victims of a civil war. Oh sure. Can we have a safe naichb their own country and food and medicine and blankets and cots and supplies . Yes. And no nation on earth has been more generous, giving aid to the refugees. We give more than ten times as much as any nation on earth in terms of money, taxpayer money to care for the refugees but if the refugees may be infiltrated with terrorists they should be resettled in the middle east and majority muslim countries where they cant wage jihad against america. Is there a deeper issue here . For example, if somebody glows up under sharia law and want to come to america but they grew up where they get to tell women, by the way, good luck telling new york women this, how to dress, they get to tell women