Ask Fred

Fred has begun to answer the questions that are being presented to him through various blog sites.

The first of these deals with the tax code. Specifically FDT responds to a question regarding "Fair Tax" and "Flat Tax". He accepts those as valid starting points (among others) toward the end goal of completely rebuilding the tax code. It is clear from his response that fixing the tax code for businesses is high on his priority list. This explains a bit of his reaction to the Fair Tax folk when asked if he would sign the fair tax if passed by Congress, to which he answered "Yes." The Fair Tax is not particularly what he is interested in, but rather to fix the tax system, which can be done in more than one way.



The second question is regarding Medicare Part D. He says that he would not have voted for it, but he then explains that he thinks that the Medicare system is broken and in need of repair, which this did not do. I don't particularly understand this answer myself. But I think he is the only candidate who is talking about actual reform of Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid rather than bloating it.