Friday, November 20, 2009
If you're going to fight a war, you should pay for a war
Which makes perfect sense unless you are a Republican. The GOP prefers to borrow without any revenue offset so they can trash the financial supports of American government.Several prominent Democrats, who still believe in paying for what you do, have called for a war tax to pay for the Kabul Quagmire.
Influential US lawmakers on Thursday called for levying a new income tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan, warning its costs pose a mortal threat to efforts like a sweeping health care overhaul.And they are exempting the military and their families from this because they have given enough already. This is supposed to be symbolic but it makes too much sense to be easily sloughed off.
"Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for," the lawmakers, all prominent Democratic allies of Obama, said in a joint statement on the "Share The Sacrifice Act of 2010."
The proposal came with US President Barack Obama set to announce within weeks his decision on whether to send more US troops to fight the war, now in its ninth year.
The group included House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey; Representative John Murtha, who chair that panel's defense subcommittee; and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank.
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