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Conservative Doctor Lectures Obama About Health Care, Debt, Tax Reform At Prayer Breakfast | Mediaite
Conservative Doctor Lectures Obama About Health Care, Debt, Tax Reform At Prayer Breakfast
by Noah Rothman | 8:53 am, February 8th, 2013video» 601 comments
Joining President Barack Obama at Thursdays National Prayer Breakfast was Dr. Benjamin Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon with Johns Hopkins Hospital. For 25 minutes at the breakfast, Carson fearlessly articulated a series of conservative principles and reform proposals. He lambasted political correctness, proposed a market-based health care program, and urged pro-growth tax code reform in order to bring down the debt and deficit.
After attacking politically correct speech as dangerous and a horrible thing, Carson turned to education. He discussed the scholarship program he manages which is directed at troubled youth. Carson said that education was the key to avoiding the fate suffered by ancient Rome. Moral decay, fiscal irresponsibly they destroyed themselves, Carson said.
Our deficit is a big problem, Carson continued. Think about it our national debt $16 and a half trillion dollars.
What about our taxation system? So complex. There is no one who can possibly comply with every tax issue, he said. If I wanted to get you, I can get you on a tax issue. That does not make any sense. What we need to do is come up with something that is simple.
When I pick up my bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, giving us a system. Its called tithe, Carson offered. He said God expects a flat tithe which is perfectly proportional at 10 percent applied to government, that would be a flat tax.
Well some people say, well thats not fair, because it doesnt hurt the guy who made 10 billion dollars, Carson said, anticipating the counterargument. Where does it say you have to hurt the guy? He just put $1 billion in the pot. We dont hurt him. Its that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands.
Carson pivoted to health care reform, where he established the necessity of care but also expressed concern about the inefficiency of the present U.S. insurance system.
What can we do? Heres my solution; when a person is born, give them a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account. Carson said. Too which, money can be contributed pre-tax to the time youre born to the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members so that when youre 85 years old and you have six diseases, youre not trying to spend up everything. Youre happy to send it on and theres nobody talking about death panels.
Watch Carsons address below via C-SPAN:
Conservative Doctor Lectures Obama About Health Care, Debt, Tax Reform At Prayer Breakfast | Mediaite
Conservative Doctor Lectures Obama About Health Care, Debt, Tax Reform At Prayer Breakfast
by Noah Rothman | 8:53 am, February 8th, 2013video» 601 comments
Joining President Barack Obama at Thursdays National Prayer Breakfast was Dr. Benjamin Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon with Johns Hopkins Hospital. For 25 minutes at the breakfast, Carson fearlessly articulated a series of conservative principles and reform proposals. He lambasted political correctness, proposed a market-based health care program, and urged pro-growth tax code reform in order to bring down the debt and deficit.
After attacking politically correct speech as dangerous and a horrible thing, Carson turned to education. He discussed the scholarship program he manages which is directed at troubled youth. Carson said that education was the key to avoiding the fate suffered by ancient Rome. Moral decay, fiscal irresponsibly they destroyed themselves, Carson said.
Our deficit is a big problem, Carson continued. Think about it our national debt $16 and a half trillion dollars.
What about our taxation system? So complex. There is no one who can possibly comply with every tax issue, he said. If I wanted to get you, I can get you on a tax issue. That does not make any sense. What we need to do is come up with something that is simple.
When I pick up my bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, giving us a system. Its called tithe, Carson offered. He said God expects a flat tithe which is perfectly proportional at 10 percent applied to government, that would be a flat tax.
Well some people say, well thats not fair, because it doesnt hurt the guy who made 10 billion dollars, Carson said, anticipating the counterargument. Where does it say you have to hurt the guy? He just put $1 billion in the pot. We dont hurt him. Its that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands.
Carson pivoted to health care reform, where he established the necessity of care but also expressed concern about the inefficiency of the present U.S. insurance system.
What can we do? Heres my solution; when a person is born, give them a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account. Carson said. Too which, money can be contributed pre-tax to the time youre born to the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members so that when youre 85 years old and you have six diseases, youre not trying to spend up everything. Youre happy to send it on and theres nobody talking about death panels.
Watch Carsons address below via C-SPAN:
just like Dr. Paul
for me right now....
at using the bible as a guide for modern taxation. There 's a reason Jesus said "render unto caesar..." Even back then he didn't know much about governance and politics. As for his question about who said we had to hurt the rich guy- the answer is in the same bible he mentions a sentence earlier. What little jesus did say about money indicated that he considered the ideal life one of relative poverty- he wasn't exactly interested in wealth creation.
