Re:They both sucked (Score 1)

I said that once. Elect the president as if it was jury duty. Lock in the tax rate. Then take the new president's assets and sell them, put them into the government. If there is a profit, then they get their money back and then some, no profit and they lose everything. Thus removing any outside interests and they can't generate a false profit by hiking taxes. I'd say that would also make them do the best job they possibly could. Of course, using that method noone would WANT to be president and might try to run away from the honor, so we set guards on them.

I'm sure there's some flaws in the plan, but it's definitely not going to be letting in power-hungry losers who drive up the American deficit.