Herman Cain’s column is distributed by CainTV, which can be found at Rand Paul nails it with his tax code replacement proposal
I like very much when I see candidates for any office - but especially for the presidency - propose ideas that don't just nudge things a bit in one direction or another, but that actually solve problems. So I really liked when Rand Paul, via an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published yesterday, proposed to rip out the tax code by its foundations and start over with a simple, flat tax of 14.5 percent on individuals and businesses.
- Friday, June 19, 2015
I was reading this past week about the explosion of oil shale development in the United States, and about how and why it's driving the recent plunge in oil prices. It's quite a story. If all you know about fracking is the shrieking you've heard from liberals about it causing earthquakes, you really owe it to yourself to get the truth.
At the suggestion of my team, the previously named "Cain's Presidential Checklist" will now be called "Cain's Presidential Ratings". Granted, it is as subjective as any other so-called political analyst out there, but as pointed out by many of my folks, at least I have been in this political derby before.
Supposedly the following was written by one Lewis Napper, a computer programmer from Mississippi. You never know when things start circulating around the Internet, so I can’t say for sure that the attribution is correct – and I apologize to Mr. Napper for harboring the slightest doubt if he indeed exists and really wrote this.
I usually leave the Hillary critiques to Dan, because he is paaasionate about reminding people about how unqualified she is to be president of the United States of America. And I agree with him wholeheartedly!
As the announced presidential candidates continue to grow in number, it's going to be harder and harder for Main Street folks like us to keep up with the similarities and the differences. This is even more difficult because of the media's uncontrollable impulse to define each candidate based on labels, sound bites, and perceptions they want to create.
Some days we get callers to the Herman Cain Radio Show that are not quite connecting all the dots, and are in denial of the failed policies of the Obama Administration. They usually spend their minute on Rapid Fire accusing me of being anti-Obama, denying the truth, and bringing up any and every past failure of Republicans and conservatives.
Let’s review the logic we are asked to accept from the we-must-act-now-on-global-warming crowd. They tell us that the science is undeniable in showing global warming is both man-made and running wild, and that only liberal policy ideas like carbon taxes and controls on industry can solve the problem.
You know me, friends. I get kind of animated sometimes, but I’m not mad. I’m just passionate.
But President Obama said something this past week that really got my blood boiling, partly because I know from experience how ignorant and wrong it is and partly because I can’t help but take it a bit personally – on my own behalf but even more so on behalf of my dad.
As we talked this morning about the horrible train derailment that injured so many, and as of now appears to have killed at least seven people, I thought about how much of this type of news we've had to deal with lately.
Yesterday, President Obama attacked Fox News for the way it covers poverty, even going so far as to say "we're going to have to change the way the media reports on these issues."
Oh are we? We all know Obama thinks the job of the media is to lick his boots, and we also know he would use the power of the state to silence media critics if he could. (They tried it with James Rosen, remember?)
Today on the radio show we talked about the fact that the U.S. national debt has reached $18.2 trillion. But another number, perhaps even more important but not widely understood, is the portion of this called debt held by the public. That is now over $13 trillion.
Did it surprise you when the news came out on Friday that 1,580 IRS employees have willfully neglected to pay their taxes over the past 10 years? Keep in mind that the “willfully” crowd is just a drop in the bucket at the IRS, where more than 18,000 employees were delinquent on their taxes at one time or another, but only the 1,580 in question were tabbed as having intentionally failed to pay.
