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Hundred Billion More? 10-07-07 mpg Democrats Propose Tax Surcharge for War Related article - A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on Tuesday proposed an income tax surcharge to finance the approximately $150 billion annual cost of operations in Iraq, saying it is unfair to pass the cost of the war onto future generations." Can you believe it? This editor cogitated upon this article for a while before posting it. It's hard to explain why, possibly because the article sounded so reasonable, so sincere, so....responsible; after all we would just be giving a little more funding to help our "poor" troops in Iraq and reduce our national debt....right? You mean Eric Prince and his Blackwater mercenaries, or perhaps all those contractors in Iraq feeding off the public trough, or how about the War Complex? So we as a people will continue to "help" cause more destruction in Iraq (a country that did absolutely NOTHING to the US) more deaths (now over a million), more refugees (now approaching five million) more damage to this nation's reputation (what little is left) and get more Americans killed in order that our wealthy elites can continue to occupy Iraq to profit from it's oil and their shares of stock? And this coming from a "Democrat"? Does anyone remember the last election? You know....the one that took place ten months ago? You know....the one where many Americans went to the polls and voted for the Democrats in order to END THIS OCCUPATION!!!! And instead they now want to increase OUR TAXES to pay FOR THEIR misbegotten adventure and THEIR PROFITS! Just exactly how much more will they make us pay when they start their NEXT adventure by attacking Iran?? It's OUTRAGEOUS! – mpg |