A conservative case for a war tax

Conservatives are always hesitant to support new taxes. For one thing, we have a deeply nonsensical, overcomplicated tax regimen already, where too many people are charged too much with too little of a return. Since taxes are fungible, adding new money into that existing system complicates and exacerbates the existing problem. Second, new taxes expand the scope of a large and expanding government.

But even the most conservative, small government voters can agree that taxes exist to fund the necessary, shared resources that only the government can provide: roads, bridges, the common defense. The key here is that, without government intervention, something critical simply will not or could not happen.