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4. Permanently eliminate savings interest, capital gains, and investment income from taxable income. Set a low flat tax for wages and gift income up to the level of the U.S. president's salary. Concurrent with these changes, I suggest a flat tax of 100% for wages + gift income that exceeds the president's salary. Many conservatives are upset by excessive compensation as well as by excessive taxes.

p>(Only a conservative could make these changes. A liberal politician would not, although they claim to want to tax the rich, since recent studies have shown that the richest also tend to be politically liberal. This would not require a constitutional amendment.) br> -- Roy Henk br> Williamsburg, Virginia /p> p> While Jeffrey Lord and Republicans consider the meaning of Conservatism I posit a simple reality to them: A balanced budget. Conservatism starts with the most important resource managed prudently, and my friends that is the almighty dollar. Unfortunately for Republicans this Conservative principle has completely eluded them. From 1970 until 2007 (37yrs, 25yrs of them Republican) the Federal government has lived beyond its means. Jeffery Lord lambastes Clinton, who surely was a below par President, but for all Clinton's failures he did something Reagan, Bush 1 and 2, Ford and Nixon couldn't do... balance consecutive budgets. In fact since Eisenhower's last year a Republican has balanced the budget TWICE, and each of these times it has been inherited from a Democrat. 47 years of Republican incompetence cannot change the fact that the true economic conservatives are Democrats. When Republicans wish to live in the same world that ordinary Americans live in -- a world where they must spend less than they earn -- then Republicans will take back the House and the Senate and probably the White House too. br> -- Nathan Maskiell br> Melbourne, Australia. /p>

Jeffrey Lord's article is magnificent. I, too, have had it with bi-partisanship. The current occupant of the White House was a fool to think he could bring a new tone to Washington. Give me a candidate that promises to spit in the eye of Teddy Kennedy and he might get my vote.

p>I have had it with moderates. I have had it with southern governors. I have had it with compassionate conservatives. I have had it with supporters of illegal aliens. I have had it with those who want to fight a kinder, gentler war. This country is yearning for a president who will go for the throat -- here and abroad! I will not hold my nose and vote for someone just because they are labeled "Republican." br> -- Jack Hughes

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