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Ben Carson presidential campaign, 2016/Budgets
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 Ben Carson |
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- Ben Carson discussed how he would reduce the federal budget while campaigning in Iowa on January 24, 2016. The Des Moines Register reported, “If elected, Carson said he would meet with the head of each government agency and tell them to cut their budget by two to three percent in a way the public would not feel a difference, or they would hand in a letter of resignation.”[2]
- Carson wrote an op-ed on January 3, 2016, for The Washington Times decrying the national debt as the most significant security threat facing the U.S. Carson wrote, “In the past, the debt ceiling drama in Washington has been a game, with the president demanding a hike in the debt ceiling and Congress demanding future spending cuts in return. Things will be different under a Carson administration. There will be no more business as usual in Washington. I will make clear that I will not raise the debt limit unless Congress commits to a viable legislative program with defined action items for budget reform that puts this country on a path of long-term fiscal discipline.”[3]
- In an October 27, 2015, interview with The Hill, Carson said he would not sign any budget deal that raised the debt ceiling if he was elected president. Carson expressed frustration that Congress was waiting until the debt limit approached to negotiate budget deals. “If I’m elected, in January of 2017, we will begin to address the budget immediately,” Carson said. “We’re not going to wait until October or November to do it, when we’re backed against the wall. And I will make it very, very clear that there will not be any budget signed that increases our debt ceiling. It will have to be done.”[4]
- Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy organization promoting free market principles, published a white paper on Carson on October 22, 2015. The organization stated that “the sum of Carson’s positions on matters of economic liberty raises considerable concern. At times, he seems to allow socialism and free market capitalism to stand on parallel planes. At other points he seems to show lack of understanding about how free markets operate. This philosophical fuzzy-mindedness becomes apparent in Carson’s own political preferences. As recently as last year, Carson said of himself: ‘I have been a Democrat, I mean quite a flaming liberal Democrat, and I have been a Republican, quite a very conservative Republican. And now I’m an Independent. I have voted for people in all different parties.’”[5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ USA Today, "Report: Ben Carson to run for president," May 3, 2015
- ↑ The Des Moines Register, "Carson emphasizes he is 'not a politician'," January 24, 2016
- ↑ The Washington Times, "The No. 1 national security threat," January 3, 2016
- ↑ The Hill, "Carson: I won’t raise the debt ceiling as president," October 27, 2015
- ↑ The Washington Times, "Ben Carson gets mixed rating from Club for Growth," October 21, 2015
