I have a conundrum. What is something that every poor man wants and every rich man despises? The answer is taxes. Taxes can send a hard worker to his knees yet allow an unemployed bum still be unemployed. And now people are demanding just reason. A major dispute in the presidential election and in society today is how to deal with taxes as far as raising or lowering them. This is a question that everyone is laying his or her ears on what Bush and Kerry have to say.

I always enjoy starting pessimistically and then build from there so I will start to what Mr. "War-Vet" Kerry has to say. First, one must assess one's current situation. A man who has an annual income of thirty thousand has to pay one thousand in taxes a year, only one thousand. That leaves twenty-nine thousand in...