Ted Cruz Schools Bernie Sanders On The Real Meaning Of The Robin Hood Story

Last night CNN held a debate on the GOP’s proposed tax cuts. Ted Cruz represented the Republican side and the democrats put up independent Senator Bernie Sanders. It was bad enough the democrats couldn’t get one of their own to debate this issue, but even worse because Sanders got destroyed. He promised a bunch of “free stuff” to be paid for by higher taxes, told the middle class they don’t deserve tax relief, and then got completely owned when Ted Cruz set him straight on the true meaning of the Robin Hood story.

“Bernie fundamentally misunderstood that story” @tedcruz re: @BernieSanders and Robin Hood #CNNDebateNight ?? https://t.co/zkjrtkdvC6

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) October 19, 2017

After promising huge tax hikes to pay for “free” college, healthcare, and whatever else liberals think everyone is entitled to, Cruz offered this correction:

“In his opening, Bernie invoked Robin Hood. And I gotta say I think Bernie fundamentally misunderstood that story. Robin Hood was robbing the tax collectors, who were collecting too much taxes from the working men and women and taking it for the rich,” said Cruz.

Now wait for it…

“It is the democrats who are King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham,” Cruz said.

Boom. Nailed it. At that point, Sanders actually looked like he was hanging his head in shame. I say it looked like that because we all know liberals have no shame when it comes to taking people’s hard-earned money.

“And Robin Hood is saying ‘tax collectors, stop hammering people who are struggling, who are laboring in the fields, who are working. Stop taking it to the castle to give out to your buddies,’” Cruz continued.

While this line was being delivered, Sanders actually started laughing because he apparently thinks it’s funny that he and his fellow liberals politicians take so much from us.

Cruz wasn’t quite done.

“Bernie’s going to tell you about all this free stuff he’s going to give, and the democrats love corporate welfare. They love to rail on the insurance companies but what they won’t tell you is under ObamaCare the profits for the insurance companies doubled,” said Cruz.

And finally…

“When you have Washington giving out goodies, the big guys do great. It’s the little people who hurt,” finished Cruz.

So yeah, liberals definitely don’t get the Robin Hood story or maybe they do and just don’t care. They are the ones robbing from the middle and working class and giving it to the rich, while pretending they are helping the poor. If anything they are the anti-Robin Hood because they are doing the exact opposite of what he did in the story.

The democrats are pushing their economic message that they feel will resonate with voters, but they just put Bernie Sanders on TV to represent them in a tax cut debate. He proceeded to say that they want to raise taxes and are opposed to any tax relief for the middle class. Not only don’t they understand the Robin Hood story, they have no idea was the word “resonate” means if they think people will flock to vote for smaller paychecks.

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