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The evangelicals are going crazy for this guy. The 2 main political ideas he presented which has the GOP giddy is a 10% flat tax, repealing Obamacare and giving everybody a Health Care Savings account at birth, which can be handed down to inheritors.
What we need to do is come up with something simple. And when I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and hes given us a system. Its called a tithe. . . . We dont necessarily have to do 10% but its the principle. He didnt say if your crops fail, dont give me any tithe or if you have a bumper crop, give me triple tithe. So there must be something inherently fair about proportionality. You make $10 billion, you put in a billion. You make $10 you put in one. Of course youve got to get rid of the loopholes. Some people say, Well thats not fair because it doesnt hurt the guy who made $10 billion as much as the guy who made 10. Where does it say youve got to hurt the guy? He just put a billion dollars in the pot. We dont need to hurt him. Its that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands. That money needs to be back here building our infrastructure and creating jobs.
Heres my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributedpretaxfrom the time youre born til the time you die. If you die, you can pass it on to your family members, and theres nobody talking about death panels. We can make contributions for people who are indigent. Instead of sending all this money to some bureaucracy, lets put it in their HSAs. Now they have some control over their own health care. And very quickly theyre going to learn how to be responsible.