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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the U.S. must police the world again, how about we pay for it this time with a war tax?
One with no cuts or offsets to domestic spending. No more wars on the credit card. Maybe this will make us all think twice about another middle east mistake.
I suspect that would chill the war fever substantially!
Bake
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Republicans love to bleat about offsetting costs. They should be in full support of this tax, right?
Yavin4
(35,455 posts)Yes, I am including the poor because we need them to be motivated to outrage as well. Also, you don't want just the rich to pay for it because they might not mind the higher taxes.
pwb
(11,318 posts)Instead of just the families who loose loved ones.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)The cost of ONE cruise missile is 1.4 MILLION dollars. How many people could that feed here in the United States? How many prescriptions could that pay for?
indepat
(20,899 posts)in the social safety net to offset all costs of waging war. Also for cuts in the social safety net to cover the cost of all cleanup should Yellowstone blow during this republic's existence.
pwb
(11,318 posts)Change we can believe in.