His Proposal
To Shorten War

The fact is that much of life is driven by money. A most distrubing event regarding how long we will be in Iraq and our potential involvement in Iran is the decision by the company Haliburton to move its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Persian Gulf.

So far, we have borrowed the money to finance the nearly $1 trillion of the cost of the war in Iraq. We need to shift the monetary impetus to finding a solution to end this war. This could easily be done by Congress instituting a war tax on the weathiest 1% of Americans to pay for all future costs of the war in Iraq.

The fact is the wealthiest Americans, who often have large holdings in stock in companies like Haliburton and EXxon, so far have benefited from this war while at the same time making the least sacrifice. If this most influencial group of Americans saw, because of a war tax, it was now in their financial interest to end the war, there would be a surge in efforts to extract ourselves from Iraq.

Of course any of these wealthy families whose children volunteer for military service in Iraq would be exempt from the new war tax. But somehow I do not think that we would see a surge in new recruits.

John Freitag

South Strafford