Maybe a war tax would chill the hot fever of war

[Jack Sprat]

Maybe Pelosi and Reid should cut right to the heart of chicken-hawks and chicken-pluckers in our heartland. To tax our citizens to pay the costs of this wholesome, vitally necessary war :sarcasm: our citizens should be expected to sacrifice for the troops. It is only reasonable.

I recommend that our Democrat majority begin work on a non-restrictive spending bill that includes sufficient new tax revenues to balance this year's fiscal budget. This would force this president to justify the necessity of his incessant rhetoric of how vital to national interests this war truly is. If he balks at it, then he can no longer argue that his party supports the troops. We could clearly gain the upper hand by demanding that we citizens should also sacrifice at home, if our troops are sacrificing their lives on foreign soil.

[muntrv]

1. Excellent idea. This is the first war the US has fought without a tax or draft.

[Vexatious Ape]

2. That makes sense but...

It would certainly spell doom for the Dem's come election time.

[tularetom]

3. It's a good thought

but the whores in the press would immediately start bad mouthing the "Democrat war tax" on cue from their puppet masters in the administration. The Amurkin sheeple not knowing any better would blame the Dems for the whole friggin mess (the war not just the tax).

If our citizens were interested in something beyond getting Sanjaya kicked off American Idol, it would be a real eye opener.

[Jack Sprat]

7. It won't wash, tom

How can you tell me that you support the troops in Iraq in the same sentence that you are telling me that you are unwilling to bear the monetary cost of the conflict in which they are engaged?

I will tell you that you are selfish, unwilling to do your part in the war against terror. I will tell you that if our people are unwilling to bear the consequential taxes for war, then the war cannot be considered vital to their security.

[tularetom]

9. And you'd be entirely right

The problem is nobody would ever hear you say that. The press would be portraying this as just another "Democrat" ploy to undermine bush and help the terrorists.

Sadly logic doesn't apply anymore. Perception is everything reality is meaningless. Thanks to our piss poor excuse for media.

I'd be willing to pay a tax to help the troops get the hell out of Iraq. I'd even be willing to pay a tax to protect them better. But the assholes that support bush's ego driven war wouldn't.

[Raven]

4. 8 billion $ a day spent out of the taxpayers' money for this war now.

Rather than imposing a tax, maybe we need to educate people about the fact that their tax money is going to this now.

[Jack Sprat]

8. Of course, but they are deferred taxes.

They are meant to fall on our backs in the form of future cuts to social spending with the most vulnerable expected to bear the most burden. Already, you see this rhetoric of blaming the growing costs of entitlements for our financial debt. That 8 billion a day is well spent by Haliburton and the Pentagon, every cent accounted for.:puke:

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. We could even make it a "Flat Tax"

Let's test their enthusiasm for both concepts.

[Jack Sprat]

10. Flat tax, income-based, Whatever!

If this administration and that 35% that hang on it's every lie really believe this war is vital to national security and they really do support the troops in the field, then they will gladly accept their responsibility to fund the dramatic costs of this war. If you are unwilling to make that sacrifice, then you cannot infer that you back the war or our troops.

[havocmom]

6. That and a draft with no loop-holes

Freepers would shit their jammies.

[flaminbats]

11. the difference between fads and fidelity..

the war was once the American idol of the Republican party. but make them pay for this war and we'll know who the real patriots are.

a fad means you love something until it becomes a burden, or hard to live with. then refusing to support it is no longer un-American! fidelity means you support it even when it becomes a heavy burden, or even a defeat.

Republicans will support the War in Iraq until they have to pay for it..or until we are defeated, Democrats will pay for the war even if we do lose and it is no longer popular.

[madinmaryland]

12. Wait a second here! We need more tax cuts to pay for the additional

war costs. What is wrong with you. Tax cuts will solve any problem you may have. Gotta a backache, give a tax break to the wealthiest of the wealthy!!1!!

:sarcasm: