His policy 'experts' must be real treasures.
That tea party favorite Ben Carson would be one of the presidential candidates that invariably float some variation of a
flat tax proposal during any given election cycle is not too surprising. It's a little more surprising that he cited the Bible as inspiration for his tax policies before fellow candidate Mike Huckabee could claim exclusive dibs on the idea—I half expect Huck to come leaping out of the shadows, Bibles in both hands, screaming "PATENT PENDING!"
at this upstart.
The retired neurosurgeon who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, said on “Fox News Sunday” he had adopted a flat-tax proposal from tithing in the Bible, citing a 10 percent rate as an example.
It’s “very condescending,” he said, to say that poor people can’t pay at the same tax rate as the wealthy.
Our other Ben Carson news, and we'll just toss this in here as an aside because a presidential candidate being scary as f--k on the whole subject of the Constitution and whether he would bother to follow it is, too, an invariable occurrence in the early stages of every election cycle, is that Ben Carson isn't sold on the idea that a president should have to abide by
decisions of the Supreme Court.
"It is an open question. It needs to be discussed," Carson said.
Host Chris Wallace told Carson that the high court's authority to review laws' constitutionality has been in place since the 1803 decision in the case Marbury v. Madison.
"And I have said this is an area that we need to discuss, we need to get into a discussion of this because it has changed from the original intent," Carson said.
He then went on, and we are not kidding on this one, to cite the Civil War. Which was a very bad time in American politics—"but we're in a better place for it."
When Wallace pressed Carson again, Carson said: "The way our Constitution is set up, the president or the executive branch is obligated to carry out the laws of the land. The laws of the land, according to our Constitution, are provided by the legislative branch. The laws of the land are not provided by the judiciary."
Which is something I think we can all hear Ben Carson saying from behind a heavily guarded presidential podium, if somehow—God forbid—he was granted that office. I wonder what his Civil War would be about. Tax policy, probably.