[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We aren’t doing it to keep from going to war.

Many are doing it to keep from paying ruinously confiscatory taxes.

[rlmorel]

Good correction...perhaps that is what the original poster meant to say...:)

As a conservative, I am not against taxes per se. I don’t have a problem paying them for things like national defense and so on.

I just detest having money taken from me to fund the NEA, PBS and ACORN, to name just a few...