Ben Carson, every time my partner and I watch him we are waiting for the detonation he seems so screwed down that if he were to blow, it would be truly epic. He says the craziest shit in his bottled up fashion, so I looked on his website.
Economics: The Balanced Budget Amendment, well it might work if nothing out of the ordinary was to ever happen and if the economy was totally predictable
However
Taxes: He has proposed a 10% flat tax and "We need a fairer, simpler, and more equitable tax system. Our tax form should be able to be completed in less than 15 minutes. This will enable us to end the IRS as we know it."
Without specific details, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) Director Bob McIntyre made a generous estimate of how much Carson’s 10 percent flat tax could reasonably raise by simply multiplying total federal adjusted gross income estimated for 2016 ($11.25 trillion) by 0.10. This would yield tax revenues of only $1.1 trillion. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates that the federal government will raise an estimated $3.5 trillion and spend $4 trillion in 2016. In other words, Carson’s plan likely would raise only 32 percent of the revenue of the current tax system and pay for only 28 percent of estimated government spending.
Combine the two: What do you cut? The only thing you could "afford" is the Military and Security services. Everything else would just have to go.
Threatening Russia would not be fiscally possible, so a win there.
However he basically aims to privative Medicare [health savings account] and social security. But GITMO would remain open.
So basically the Pentagon gets the tax revenue, everything else is privatized and the Government shut down.
I suppose instead of prisons, we create full corporate production facilities which seems to be the current trend anyway.
So everything devolves to the individual States who also then have Balanced Budget obligations, there will now no longer be transfer of tax dollars from richer to poorer States.
Rest assured Carson wants more guns circulating, so in this New Somalia second amendment solutions may well be pretty common.
Yes, he believes life begins at conception, but after birth it may be miserable and very short indeed.
Then again you can always pray in public, it may well become compulsory to do so.
Republicans just love the popular sound bites, it is when you start combining them into one policy that the consequences become clear.
They love predicting the apocalypse and the fall of America, as far as I can see they plan to speed that up.
Ben Carson the Crazies Crazy.