WAR TAX COULD BE IMPOSED

Our country is already broke. How much more can they squeez out of the American people?

people will probably stop paying soon

I just saw it on CNN, I about fell off my chair. They said ALL will pay and extra tax. From what I saw it looks like more income tax and I don't know what else.

Hmmm and with almost 20% unemployment how do they propose to do that? More taxes on small bus? Taxes on food? Taxes one the air you berath? Geeeeeeeeeeeezzzzz!!!!!

What number Crusade are we on?

They will take everything you have including any sellable organs.

Not mine they won't.

anyone else know more about this?

War surtax: 'Pay as you fight'


After months of listening to conservatives caterwaul over deficits and health care, senior House Democrats want a graduated surtax on individuals and corporations to pay for another big drain on the treasury: the Afghanistan war.


Three full committee chairmen — including the House’s top tax writer, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) — are backing the initiative together with the chair of the party caucus, Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), and close allies of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.


The speaker has been silent thus far, and many dismiss the idea as more rhetoric than real legislation. But with President Barack Obama due to make a final decision soon on adding more U.S. troops, the initiative testifies to the growing restlessness among Democrats over the costs of the American commitment in Afghanistan.


Today’s jobless rate — far worse than during the height of the Vietnam War in the '60s — adds to this angst. And Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), who oversees the Pentagon’s budget and supports the surtax, went so far as to send Obama last month a copy of Yale historian Paul Kennedy’s “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.”


U.S. military spending in Afghanistan had reached $3.6 billion a month this summer — or more than $43 billion a year, according to estimates by the Congressional Research Service. And in the course of meeting with lawmakers, Obama has used a rough measuring stick that every 1,000 troops added will add another $1 billion to this annual basis.


“We’re not trying to insult anybody. We’re just trying to keep in the forefront what the financial costs are,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) told POLITICO. “We felt conscience bound to speak up”


“It’s conditional, but if we’re going to add 40,000 troops, people ought to know what the costs are,” said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.). “It’s important for people to understand how these wars are adding to our deficits.”


Dubbed the “Share the Sacrifice Act,” the six-page bill exempts anyone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan since the 2001 terrorist attacks as well as families who have lost an immediate relative in the fighting. But middle-class households earning between $30,000 and $150,000 would be asked to pay 1% on top of their tax liability today — a more sweeping approach than many Democrats have been willing to embrace.


By comparison, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has spoken only of an added tax on the wealthy. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) remains hesitant about any surtax to cover the war: “Someone has to demonstrate how it can be done,” he told POLITICO in a statement Monday.

[link to www.politico.com]

I don't even know why we are in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.

I don't even know why we are in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.

I don't even know why we are in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.

I don't even know why you posted that three times?

I thought Mr. Hope & Change said he was going to end these wars and bring our troops home?

THEY WANT TOTAL CONTROLE..If they can destroy the economy, one world order can be imposed that much more quickly.

Yes and I swear I heard him during his campaign saying NO new taxes.

Well I guess he CHANGED his mind.

Changed his mind and snatched it out of our bank accounts.

they impose this tax and we will be going to war

with them

they had trillions in bailouts, and the money bailed out of the country. now they want us to pay for a war that very few agree with?

once upon a time, you went to war, kicked their asses, and took their assets. now we bomb the shit out of them, never win, then rebuild them. we buy the bombs and bricks from the same damn people!

Last Edited by malu on 11/24/2009 05:34 PM

The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.”

- Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997



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Here is a nice one..... Tax on food. Soooooo if you are FAT, you should be held accountable.

This woman is CRAZY

If you want anything to work, you first have to tax the shit out of it.

TAX TAX TAX MMMM MMMM MMMM

LETS SEE. If you are fat you pay, if you smoke you pay, if you drink you pay, if you work you pay, if you eat you pay and when you die you pay. And when we go to war we all pay.

Good one :)

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Interesting


The bottom line is that inflation will almost certainly be a more heavily emphasized tool for financing the federal government than in the past, despite President Obama's recent claims that he will cut the deficits in half in the future. The way to end deficit spending — and the inflation tax — is to cut government spending. But that's not what President Obama or most congressmen have in mind.

read it and weep

Does this apply to Constitutionally-based revolutions? If so, where do I send my $1,000?

No constitution here. sorry to say. just more government bull shit

Ha, bring it. It was about time. There's you fucking American exceptionalism at work. Gotta pay for death some way. My, oh my, this puts you Conservative and fuckwad Liberal war-suckers in a bind now, doesn't it? Too bad our tax dollars have been dumped into this bullshit for decades now. Smile next time you use damn near any product, that company was most likely on the Dod payroll. And you people want to bitch about socialism.

i have no problem with the wealthy folks who benefit the most from this government's actions; paying their fair share...

shucks, in Michigan they have levied so many "user fee" increases on the lower class already; to try an pick up the slack...

time for the folks that benefit the most to pay up... LoL

of course they will tax us they will also tax us for taking a shit and piss o and masterbating ( fuck!!!! im screwed) legalize pot and we wouldnt have a recession

Well, look at it this way. Yes, they are. Of course.

When everyone currently employed lose their jobs along with the rest, the banks are closed or too thuggish to deal with, food is short - as will as tempers, gas costs too much, there is nothing to buy anyway because the container ships are not moving and no one can afford what is available, and no one has enough money to maintain an address -- well, won't evermore, back-breaking taxes just be moot.