Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Primary for Senator last Tuesday.
He is a far left so-called Progressive, and certainly has some impressive academic credentials.
He attended the University of Michigan, where he majored in biology and political science. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Highest Distinction in 2007 with a bachelor's degree and delivered that year's commencement speech. El-Sayed received a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Michigan Medical School, where he completed two years of medical school, and considered becoming a neurosurgeon. There he led a student medical mission to Peru and founded a student organization that raised money and coordinated community service for a local free clinic.
He then received a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oriel College, Oxford, where he completed a D.Phil. in public health in 2011. In 2014, he completed a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. El-Sayed did not pursue a medical license, and instead went into public health epidemiology work.
I wonder why he decided against getting a medical license?
In 2014, El-Sayed joined the faculty at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health as an assistant professor in the epidemiology department. In August 2015, Mayor Mike Duggan appointed El-Sayed Health Officer and Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department.
El-Sayed is the author of over 100 scholarly articles, abstracts, and book chapters on public health policy, social epidemiology, and health disparities.
Like I said, impressive academic credentials. Then again, Osama Bin Laden had academic credentials as well including a stint at Oxford.
I don't like Muslims. I don't trust Muslims. Fighting them for so many years might have something to do with that so my immediate reaction to this guy is, no thanks.
There used to be these two buildings in Manhattan. Islam is both a political movement and a religion. The two can't be separated. El-Sayed supports the same people that the Muslims that flew planes into those buildings supported. We buried people after 911. We were supposed to "Never Forget." Looks like too many people in Michigan forgot.
Basically he won by promising people lots of free stuff.
He's going to pay for the free stuff by taxing billionaires. There are two reasons why this strategy never works.
First, really rich people are really, really good at keeping their money. They can afford to hire the best tax and financial advisors on the planet. Getting at their money is a lot harder than it sounds.
Second, there aren't enough billionaires around to pay for the things he's promising. The income tax started out at 1% on $0 to $20,000 ($640,000 today) after a $3,000 exemption for single taxpayers and a $4,000 exemption for married couples. The exemptions were enough to exclude 98% of workers.
Now look at the income tax today.
The same thing is going to happen with proposed wealth taxes. They won't be able to accumulate enough revenue from taxing only billionaires and the tax will move down first to the Upper Class, then to the Upper Middle Class and finally to the Middle Class.
They'll be coming after your saving accounts, your 401k accounts and the equity in your home before you know it. The crazy logic these so-called Progressives have is, if you earned the money, then you don't deserve it, but if you didn't earn it, then you deserve it. Besides, the only people who would vote for them are the ones getting the free stuff that someone else is paying for.
The Fallacy of Democracy begins when 51% of the electorate figures out that they can vote goodies for themselves that the other 49% will pay for.
He also wants an arms embargo on Israel, because of course he does, he's a Muslim, and he wants to abolish ICE. We might want to rein in ICE, and get rid of the untrained recruits that Trump hired, by abolishing it is insanity.
So for the first time in my life, I'm supporting a MAGA Republican, Mike Rogers, to beat this guy in the general election.
