I would like to inform my neighbors in Colerain Township of the man who should be our next president.

Gary Johnson is the best candidate for president in 2016, and he is already commanding 11 percent of voters’ support in national polls versus Trump and Clinton. We are approaching another Ross Perot phenomenon in this election year.

Gary Johnson has a great plan to restore the American Dream, by reducing taxes on everyone who works for a living, not just the wealthy, which seems to be the Republicans’ priority ever since George W. Bush. He wants to eliminate income taxes and corporate taxes in favor of a national consumption tax.

Government spending would be cut by a corresponding amount. Unlike Donald Trump and other right-wing militarists, he wants to reduce our military spending by 40 percent, and he would privatize certain government programs to save money, as he did with Medicaid and state prisons when he was the governor of New Mexico. This would not increase the national debt, as with the policies of George W. Bush, because Johnson balanced the New Mexico state budget when he cut taxes as governor, and he will insist on balanced federal budgets immediately.

This will make the United States more competitive with Canada and Western Europe, who now tend to have lower corporate taxes than the supposedly “capitalist” United States. When Princeton University researchers asked 500 corporate executives about this one simple reform, the majority said they would build their next plant in America, and 20 percent said they would move their corporate headquarters to the United States. Once the global economy prefers to conduct business in this country, we can have again the classical liberal capitalism intended by the Founding Fathers, and return to middle-class prosperity.

Johnson is also not a Religious Right candidate, even though raised Lutheran. He does not want government to prosecute the “sins” of certain religions, and he thinks that drugs, firearms, abortion and prostitution should all be legal. He opposes the draft or any form of mandatory national service. These policies are now endorsed by many celebrities, including Snoop Dogg, Geraldo Rivera, Clint Eastwood, Drew Carey, and Ashton Kutcher, among other libertarians.

Gary Johnson will be a far better president than either of the men in history who bore his surname as the chief executive of the United States. In particular, he will undo the socialism and bureaucracy of his namesake Lyndon Johnson from the 1960s, the man also responsible for the Vietnam War and continuing the draft.

Here’s to Landslide Gary Johnson. He can defeat Trump and Clinton in 2016.

Adrian Hinton is a graduate of Colerain High School, Colerain Career Center, and the University of Cincinnati. He lives in Colerain Township.