Benjamin Solomon
Benjamin Solomon (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 16th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Solomon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Benjamin Solomon was born in Malaysia.[1] Solomon earned a bachelor's degree from Aston University in 1979, a graduate degree from Lancaster University in 1982, and a graduate degree from the University College Dublin in 1995. His career experience includes founding and working as the CEO of Business AIR Models Inc.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 16th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 16
Incumbent Anna Eshoo defeated Rishi Kumar in the general election for U.S. House California District 16 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Anna Eshoo (D) | 57.8 | 139,235 | |
| Rishi Kumar (D) | 42.2 | 101,772 | ||
| Total votes: 241,007 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 16
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 16 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Anna Eshoo (D) | 47.9 | 81,100 | |
| ✔ | Rishi Kumar (D) | 15.6 | 26,438 | |
| Peter Ohtaki (R) | 12.6 | 21,354 | ||
| Richard Fox (R) | 7.8 | 13,187 | ||
| Ajwang Rading (D) | 6.7 | 11,418 | ||
| Greg Tanaka (D) | 6.6 | 11,107 | ||
| Benjamin Solomon (R) | 1.6 | 2,659 | ||
| John Karl Fredrich (Independent) | 1.3 | 2,120 | ||
| Travis Odekirk (D) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 2 | ||
| Total votes: 169,385 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Benjamin Solomon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Solomon's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I believe that Congressional Representatives look out for and facilitate Americans, as individuals, to make decisions about their choices in life, and not force a point of view. We want a government that knows how to effectively use our precious hard earned taxpayers’ money, for all Americans. This money is not unlimited. Neither is the leveraging of this money with debt – government issued bonds – an unlimited supply of funds.
In 1995 I invented Westport Malaysia’s 7-hour port hinterland strategy. Westport was then a $1 billion port infrastructure project in the shadow of the largest container port in the world, the Port of Singapore Authority. With this strategy by 2006 Westport grew to 6th largest port in the world.
Among my many business & scientific innovations, I invented a new bank product Home Equity Line for Self-Insured Servicing (HELSIS). It will reduce mortgage defaults by up to 70% & similarly reduce bank risk capital, but Congress won't listen, thus my running for CA CD 16.
- Economy-Jobs: Inflation has spiked. Even though inflation may be temporary, its effects are permanent. This is happening because Quantitative Easing (though necessary at one time) is the major source of excess money supply and needs to be eliminated. Combined with supply-chain issues we have too much money chasing too few goods, and thus inflation. As long as Quantitative Easing exist, we will have inflation. That is, by 2024 I estimate that $1 worth today will only be worth $0.80. That is a tremendous hidden tax on our earnings. This will hamper job creation.
- Excessive Government Overreach: Results in wasted taxpayers’ money and forces the need to increase taxes. Two examples. (i) Our Federal Budget of $550 billion for clean energy policies and discriminating against non-union based companies is wasted. Did you know that Emissions CO2 only accounts for 0.001% of Atmospheric CO2? That global warming due to increasing Atmospheric CO2 is entirely due to deforestation. Therefore this $550 billion is entirely wasted, and free markets should determine which of the new technologies should succeed. (ii) Did you know that the US spends $8,815/person on COVID relief while Sweden spends $4,831/person, but US mortality rate is 213 per 100,000 persons while Sweden’s is 147! Public health policy failure.
- Bad Education: Good education leads to good jobs and bad education leads to poorly paid jobs. Employers can tell. Our schools are failing our children teaching race-based Marxist theory under the guise of Critical Race Theory. They should teach that we are all one American with equal rights under the law, like Dr Martin Luther King did.
I have laid down 3 rules (i) Funding Rule, Deficit < 33% Individual Tax base. Currently, Individual Income Taxes and Payroll Taxes account for 85% of the budget, thus any deficit is supported by issuing Treasury bonds. This in turn increases the Net Interest on Public Debt and is an unproductive burden to the government’s tax receipts forcing tax increases in subsequent years. (ii) Disposable Income Rule, Individual Taxes (W2 Taxes) < 80% of Total Receipts, as the less we tax individuals the more they have to spend in our consumer economy thus buoying the economy. And (iii) Leverage Rule, Public Debt < 40% of GDP, this ensure that there isn’t excess money in the economy and reduces both inflation opportunities and future Net Interest on Public Debt burden to the taxpayer.
I loved watching the Netflix series, Maid, Outlander, Blacklist, Gilmore Girls and The Queen’s Gambit.
A good listener. Patience. A very good thinker. Doer. Making people accountable.
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Campaign website
Solomon's campaign website stated the following:
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Rebuild Public Safety: Organized mob violence and crime is spreading throughout California. It will soon be in our neighborhoods if we don’t do something about it. Wall Street Journal published an article documenting the madness in California. Do we want more crime? Do we want Progressive mob rule?
Our Progressive Government claims that this is temporary, but did you know that inflation’s effects are permanent? Inflation has shot up to an unprecedented 8.5% last seen almost 40 years ago. That was hell then.
Taxes are going up because the Progressives passed a $4 trillion budget by gaming it to look like a $1.5 trillion budget. Are we stupid? Interest rate sensitivity analysis shows that during high inflation (which we are in now) taxes must go up by up to 2.6x to pay interest on public debt. The Progressive tax shocker - coming soon
Our grade school education is so bad that our ivy league universities have to import foreign students to maintain their standards! If that does not matter, remember a lousy education gets a lousy job. Employers know.
Our Progressive Congress is manufacturing false urgencies to get us to vote for them and make us believe that they are doing something critically important. How? Our forefathers fought for our freedoms. This Progressive Congress is taking away our freedoms little by little and increasingly telling us what we cannot do. Global Warming is not due to Emissions CO2 (or 0.001% of Atmospheric CO2)! Do the calculations yourselves. It is impossible to reduce Atmospheric CO2 with the $550 billion clean policies of Build Back Better which addresses a minuscule part of the problem! It is a waste of taxpayers’ hard-earned money. Our Public Health Policies are all wrong! Sweden spends less than half per person than the US on COVID relief but gets half the death rate! That means 350,000 American would be alive if we just followed Sweden’s example. Why are we following China’s?
Having a decade in Stress Testing, I have proposed 5 rules for Congressional Budget Management. Remember it is not Congress’ money, it is our taxpayers’ money and Congress should be acting as responsible stewards of our money. Can we reduce mortgage defaults? Yes. Quantitative Easing averted a financial meltdown of the US economy in 2009-2010 by saving the banks. How about mortgage borrowers? HELSIS is the new bank product I invented in 2020 to protect mortgage holders and thus banks.
Stop teaching false ideology in schools. Its purpose is to make our children believe that their future is not up to them but the state. Identity Politics, Critical Race Theory & Woke. CRT has many scientific mistakes. I lived in a country that practiced Identity Politics for 52 years and can confirm that it is a version of apartheid. White Guilt is false! It is belief slavery. This white guilt false narrative teaches our children that they cannot do better because of who they were born to.[3] |
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| —Benjamin Solomon's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Solomon4Congress.us, "Who is Ben Solomon?" accessed May 16, 2022
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 29, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Solomon4Congress.us, “Platform,” accessed May 10, 2022
