This week, Dr. Ben Carson released details of a tax reform plan. This plan would replace the current federal income tax (both individual and corporate) with a 14.9 percent Hall-Rabushka-style flat tax. The plan would tax all wage income and business income at 14.9 percent. Capital gains, dividends, and interest income would be tax-exempt at […]
When I compared the tax reform proposals of various 2016 presidential candidates last month, Ben Carson got the best grade by a slight margin. But I’ve now decided to boost his overall grade from a B+ to A-, or perhaps even A, because he’s finally released details and that means his sub-category grade for “specificity” […]
The last time Ben Carson talked about his flat rate tax plan I was pretty sniffy about it. Simply because it wasn’t actually very good, it hadn’t been thought through in even the most basic manner concerning its arithmetic. Then the idea was that everyone would pay a flat rate of 10% and as I […]
Three cheers for the Ben Carson tax plan. This is a serious pro-growth tax reform that would create millions of jobs and vastly simplify the federal IRS tax code. This would help make America a tax haven, and jobs would come to these shores rather than get outsourced to our rivals. This plan puts America […]
Most of the people who watched the GOP debate last night were likely sure of two things when they heard Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Chris Christie argue the government needs the power to snoop in this digital age and Sen. Rand Paul and, to a lesser extent, Sen. Ted Cruz, arguing that the U.S. […]