If the U.S. must police the world again, how about we pay for it this time with a war tax?

[pwb]

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.

[Bake]

1. Good call!

I suspect that would chill the war fever substantially!



Bake

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. I love the idea.

Republicans love to bleat about offsetting costs. They should be in full support of this tax, right?

[Yavin4]

3. I would call for an automatic across the board 10% increase in taxes for everyone to pay for the war

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]

5. Exactly, something that makes us all feel the cost of war.

Instead of just the families who loose loved ones.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. I like it.

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]

6. This is not how the system is designed to work: look for Republicans to insist on cuts

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]

7. This is how we change that system.

Change we can believe in.