Maybe it’s time for the war bonds
As the financial cost of the Iraq War approaches half a trillion dollars, I was referred to a locally-built Web site/calculator estimating the bill on an individually-taxed basis. I pounded in some rough income levels for the last four years, figuring it might be a substantial result, and… PAZOWZA! Thousands per person for each year of the war, and no end in sight. Hoo-boy.
Just last week all those local teevee news folk were warning how a nickel-per-gallon gas tax could cost me hundreds per year. Well hey, that’s corn feed (E85 at that) compared to my war tax, and at least the potholes get fixed.
I hustled on over to the Taxpayer’s League Web site. Surely those guardians of our pocketbooks would have a sternly-worded position on the matter. The TPL of MN may focus on state and local taxes, but they’ve never been bashful about federal matters.
So, let’s see, we appear to be overfunding schools, and public transit is an enormous waste of our dollars, nothing on the war, new stadiums very bad, better try a search - war funding - oop there we go. From just last September…
You’re cordially invited to a talk entitled “Why We Must Stay the Course in Iraq” by America’s most renowned military historian, Victor Davis Hanson.
Oooo-kay, so to review. Most taxes: bad. But gigantic, endless taxes that are part of a reckless neo-conservative agenda? Good.