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[[Ted Cruz | Cruz's]] [[Entrepreneurship and Innovation]] [[Ted Cruz (Entrepreneurship and Innovation)| (section page)]]
===Small Business===
*"Instead of small businesses going out of business in record numbers, imagine small businesses growing and prospering."
This turns out to be false. The business failure rate in 2012 reverted back to the 2005 levels. [http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/mar/24/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-small-business-are-going-out-business-rec/]
==='''Internet Regulation and Entrepreneurial Freedom'''===
*"We must promote growth in the technological sector, a consistent bright spot for the U.S. economy. But we won’t realize more of that dynamic growth unless we keep the Internet free from the kind of unnecessary regulation that is strangling our health-care, energy and banking industries... one of the biggest regulatory threats to the Internet is “net neutrality.” In short, net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet." [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-regulating-the-internet-threatens-entrepreneurial-freedom/2014/11/13/a0a852e6-6aaf-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html (WPOPED)]
*Opposes net neutrality on the basis it stifles innovation [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-regulating-the-internet-threatens-entrepreneurial-freedom/2014/11/13/a0a852e6-6aaf-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html (WPOPED)]
*"Internet freedom has produced robust free speech for millions and ''' is an incubator for entrepreneurs ''' to expand jobs and opportunities." [https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/jobs-and-opportunity/ (TCW - J&B)]
==='''Tax Reform Spurs Growth, Growth Comes from Entrepreneurs'''===