Deploying troops, raising taxes, vetoing key legislation or revealing a mistake of judgment may not be very popular, but it may be right for the country.
There are also other question marks, including how the election will affect the market, particularly whether Congress will stop increases in capital gains and estate taxes, two key rates that heavily influence buying and selling decisions.
Instead, they are privatizing government assets (including their pension programs), adopting flat taxes, deregulating key industries and dismantling unaffordable welfare-state programs.
It will eliminate capital gains taxes for key investments in 1 million small businesses.
In today's world of soaring energy costs, power rationing and export taxes on key commodities such as wood, wage gaps are less important.
Since governments tend to spend more money than they collect in taxes, the key to a nation's financial well-being resides in its ability to service its debt.
Today, Republicans like Mr. Cain make abolition of the capital gains tax a key element of their tax reform efforts.
Docherty also has a useful lesson plan to teach tax for key stages 5 and 6.
On tax, the key proposal is a "substantial increase in the personal allowance from April 2011, with the benefits focused on those with lower and middle incomes".
The argument was encapsulated for many by the poll tax, a key Tory policy introduced by Margaret Thatcher in Scotland earlier than in the rest of the UK despite the lack of Conservative voters in the country.
