Last night I went to a meeting of one of Los Angeles's most active and successful Republican clubs and was informed by a national pollster that over 5.3 million more Democrats voted in the primaries than Republicans. To add to that bad news the NY Times had run an article that suggested voting patterns throughout the states were changing. They indicated that Americans were signing up for the Democrat Party in droves and that the shift was so dramatic that Republicans may be non-competitive for several election cycles.

As much as the club's leaders and assorted local candidates tried, nothing could clear the cloud of apathy that hung over the mainly conservative crowd. They were and are extremely unhappy with the party's nominees for President. He is the last candidate the room would have preferred to be heading the ticket. Clearly the members would hold their nose and vote for John McCain but they are not going to be enthusiastic about it. Unfortunately for Republicans normal voter patterns predict that if the party lacks a strong leader down-ticket candidates will suffer. Preliminary elections of Democrats in Republican strongholds bear that out.

Like everyone else I have my theories on why the dramatic shift to the Democrat Party has taken place. Mine are seen through the eyes of a tax accountant. A guy who treated his clients not as customers but as patients - patients sick with a disease called taxation. My job was to cure that disease and shepherd the patient to after-tax health. Unfortunately for me the first two tax returns I was assigned to prepare were for the richest actor and the actual richest man on the planet. After that it has all been down hill.

Decades later in 2004 I expanded my horizons and decided to put my skills to work on ordinary Americans. I became a political writer dedicated to devising a plan to increasing the after-tax wealth of the majority of Americans. I believed that services like mine were needed on a national scale. Neither the political nor the religious community were effectively addressing the poverty issue.

In the ensuing years I have learned that neither politicians nor the voter are sufficiently equipped to fully grasp the problem they face. It is as plain as the noses on their face. It is the elephant in the room. It is the inability of the American culture and political system to deliver the American Dream of financial independence to all its citizens. America has all the tools and the most successful economic system on Earth - capitalism. So what's the problem?

If you are like everyone else, you too will reject that possibility. How can some tax accountant devise a plan to make the poor rich? You will no doubt reject that proposition out-of-hand with the age-old proverb "there will always be poor people". You no doubt will ask if it could have been done why hasn't it already been solved - America has world famous economists, legislatures and business leaders - have those people just been asleep? Why couldn't they solve it?

Well the answer is it has been solved but no one has been there to inform the public of its solution. In fact the solution is so clear and powerful that the Democrat Party is using the affects of that solution to win the 2008 election. At this point you must be screaming - how can a Republican success be turned into the issue that defeats them in 2008. The answer to that question lies in two words "trickle down economics" and "income disparity".

The Democrat Party will ride into the White House and into Washington on the "income disparity" horse whipping it with the failure of "trickle down" economics. Their solution to the income disparity issue is the lame proposition to tax the rich and redistribute to the poor. What Republicans haven't caught onto is that the very fact of income disparity proves their point - investment by, not taxation of individuals is the road to wealth. In the 25 years since income tax rates were lowered from 70% to 35%, trickle-down economics has created over 1,000 billionaires worldwide and so many rich people in the United States that everyone wants a piece of the pie.

To a tax accountant like me the case for lower taxes that creates a pool of capital out of earnings for ordinary Americans to participate in the success of capitalism is a slam dunk. Socialism enslaves individuals and dulls their incentives, capitalism frees them to grow, dream and INVEST in the American economy.

America's long journey away from the poison that is taxation will be interrupted in 2008. The public has been convinced that the Democrat Party can deliver the American Dream better than the Republicans. Polls after their 2006 success said Democrats would be better shepherds of the economy and more likely than Republicans to lower taxes on ordinary Americans. Republicans are missing the boat, this Democrat tide will wash right over them.

Republicans have had 14 years to change the fortunes of ordinary Americans and the perception is that they failed miserably. The current housing crisis, gas and food prices and inflation from a falling dollar are all going to bury Republicans because Republicans refuse to emphasize their success with "trickle down" and incorporate a way to deliver the same medicine to ordinary folks.

Republicans have demonstrated that massive tax cuts for the rich created enormous wealth for the rich and will do the same for the poor and middle-class. You must ask what tax – the poor don’t pay taxes. The tragedy is that misconception – they pay 15.3% of their lifetime INCOME in payroll taxes.

I have devised that prescription and it is available to conservatives worried that galloping socialism and a veto-proof Congress will impose punishing taxation and approve liberal judges to the Supreme Court and forever change the course of the Republic so elegantly designed by our Founders. You can find that prescription at www.riseupamerica.us.

The Rise Up America plan is premised on the proposition that Americans would do better if they invested in the American economy rather than send 15.3% of their lifetime income to the government in return for a goose egg rather than the nest egg at retirement Rise UP offers. Read it. It will make you weep for what could have been. AND if Republicans want to stop this Marxist insanity and get enthusiastic about an election what better way than taking away from Democrats the perception of which party can deliver the "comm. on good" to the American people. Are there Americans alive who would rather be poor than rich? Think about it- is selling wealth all that difficult?