Posted on 05/10/2015 3:21:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson Sunday touted a flat tax plan that he says even the nation’s poor would pay if he’s elected.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Carson said it’s "very condescending" to think that poor people can’t pay taxes at the same flat rate as wealthier Americans. Carson said he got the idea for his plan – he calls it a proportional tax – from tithing in the Bible.
Using a 10 percent rate as an example, Carson said "You make $10 billion a year, you pay $1 billion. You make $10 a year, you pay one dollar."
"Now, some people say it’s not fair because, you know, the poor people can’t afford to pay that dollar," Carson, a retired neurosurgeon told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. "That’s very condescending. You know, I grew up very poor. I experienced every economic level. And I can tell you poor people have pride, too. And they don’t want to be just taken care of."
Carson disagreed with calculations that Wallace quoted from the Tax Policy Center that indicated a flat tax would have to be in the 20 percent range in order for the federal government to raise as much revenue as it does now...
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Every day, in oh so many ways, Carson proves that he is not ready for prime time and has no business being looked on as a serious presidential candidate. Running for office on the promise to raise taxes for half the people in the country is not the way to win.
Fedgov dosent need a fraction of what it takes in now.
He should run instead on a platform of more taxes upon the rich and middle class.
One thing about all these guys that have no chance of being elected... they do change the dialogue, whether the left likes it or not.
That said, my time and money are going to the Cruz campaign.
/johnny
If you make $10 a year, I don’t know, I think you died already. A panhandler couldn’t make that little if he tried.
Ben’s a nice guy but the days of people like my mother going shopping in the middle of the night so no one would know she was using food stamps, are over, i think.
(dad was recovering from 2nd heart attack and she was in nursing school in her early 40s)
Everybody should pay something. They are not going to want to, I think
Oh yeah, there’s a new and fresh approach to empowering all Americans to feel like they are part of the system and that they matter
Sarc
National Sales Tax would be the same concept — you buy a $100,000 car, you pay more tax than the guy buying a $10,000 car — and easy to assess: just add a key on the register. Its added benefit would be that Washington would always have a stake in maintaining a roaring economy — if the economy sucks and nobody’s buying, Washington loses money. And Washington would hate that.
How would this new motto go over?
“No free riders. Everybody pays their share.”
Must be racist or something.
That half the population wasn't going to vote for him anyway...
Very true. Even a grandstander like Trump comes up with a few things well worth at least considering.
Forgetting about who is running for what. . .it seems only right that everyone who benefits from our great country has some skin in the game. Even if just a penny. I think I saw a statistic on Drudge that 1 in 5 families have someone working in the household. . . .not much return there. If they can’t come up with the cash. . .how about some volunteer work. . .cleaning up beer cans and cigarette butts and trash around their dwellings. . .Just sayin. By the way I am all for helping people in need but this country has gone wacko.
Great brain surgeon (or not) but that’s about the end of the line. Obviously clueless about the everyday world most of us live in.
It would be great if everyone had skin in the game.
Thus everyone has skin in the game, and has a reason to keep tax rates down and ensure that public funds are spent wisely.
Plus I believe it to be unconstitutional to discriminate against the rich by making them pay a higher percentage. That is not equal protection under the law.
Poor people should be taxed more to encourage them to earn more money.
The flat tax would do the same, in addition to making the U.S. a world-wide mecca for the productive, not, as it is today, a mecca for... those who should be headed to Mecca!
Cain said “nine, nine, nine,”
Dr. Ben says “ten, ten, ten.”
To say the poor would pay is beyond unrealistic.
Dr. Ben Carson is a nice highly intelligent man. He gives above average speeches.
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