League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
State of Ohio March 6, 2012 Election
	Michael L. Pryce Answers Questions Candidate for United States Senate; Republican Party

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Questions & Answers

1. According to the U.S. Census, median income has declined and the number in poverty has increased. What steps should be taken to strengthen the U.S. economy and address unemployment?

We must convince everyone that businesses do not pay taxes, the public does. Change to a cash register tax and eliminate all federal taxes. That brings the cost of our products down so people can afford them both in the United States as well as abroad. When people buy things jobs increase. Our balance of trade will improve and dollars will begin to flow back into the US, strengthening the dollar monumentally. Alan Greenspan testified before Congress that we will not lose one dime of revenue, but it will improve as everyone pays taxes instead of just half of us. Investments will flourish, jobs will be plentiful, foreign governments will invest in America. It will stop the fighting between Democrats and Republicans as taxes are cut to satisfy Republicans and revenue will increase to satisfy the Democrats. It is simple, easy to administer and saves the federal government trillions.

2. How would you reform the tax code?

The Tax code is the most burdensome problem in our country. NO ONE can figure it out. Even the Secretary of the Treasury failed to get his taxes right. There is no need for this. Changing to a consumption tax, which some people refer to the fair tax, is the cheapest and easiest way to eliminate this problem. The elimination of all federal taxes and the IRS saves the American taxpayer trillions. Confusing tax schemes only make the problem worse as there is still a tax in place and Democrats constantly want to raise it and 11 Republicans want to cut it. By making it require a 3/4`s vote of the public to change the rate stops the fighting forever. An emergency tax of 5% could be put in place for wars or natural disasters, but needs the 3/4`s vote as well. It`s secure and easy to implement.

3. How would you change Medicare to make it sustainable?

I am a doctor and I have lived with Medicare and I am the only expert on this in the Senate Race. I am the only candidate for high office in the country that has actually written a book about health care reform. Its title is Anathema! America's War on Medicine. It raised me to recognition as a health reform expert. I create a health care plan that is a 3 step process: 1) by creating a common digital medical record that only health professionals can use, 2) reforming liability which I have done without interfering with anyone`s Constitutional Right to Sue, 3) bring the entitlements in so initially, the federal government only has to raise enough taxes to pay the premiums on the policies creating the largest actuarial table possible, over 300 million. This plan brings everyone`s cost down to $100 a month on the average. No other plan approaches this.

4. Do you believe it is possible to protect the environment while preserving American jobs? What are examples of how this can be done?

Certainly! We take advantage of everything that is free from Mother Nature; Wind, Ocean Currents, Hydroelectric, Solar, Nuclear. We must be aware that we cannot buy our way out of economic doldrums with green energy, but if it is free energy, why not take it? I grew up in Northeast Ohio and was alive when the Cuyahoga River caught fire. There is no reason to poison our environment. We must respect the fact that until our natural American ingenuity can come up with alternate sources we will have to rely on fossil fuels. Plant millions of trees. Increasing the fuel mileage will help. Creating better mass transit will help. The carbon footprint in our Revolutionary War was 4 times higher than it is right now. Our problem is not America, but China and other third world countries that do not care. That does not free us of vigilance.

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