If ISIS is so scary and dangerous, we must RAISE TAXES TO PAY FOR this WAR

[J_J_]

The media and politicians are so scared, they no doubt will go along with raising taxes to pay for something so important-

This is just so scary- the boogeyman is going to get us!!!


Bernie Sanders needs to bring up raising taxes to pay for this,

That will put an end to this bullshit real fast.



We can also follow what Smedley Butler suggested, that during a time of war, the CEO's of the war machine will take the same pay as a grunt.

This will end talk of war forever.



Have the terrified pundits and politicians explained how they are going to pay for this?

Because Last time....those two tax cuts didn't actually work out so well....

....then they blamed poor, unemployed and disabled people for all the money they wasted.

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. No it won't AGAIN you guys are STILL expecting a miracle worker....Bernie is not one either....

he is not a magic politician either...

[J_J_]

2. Okey- Jon Stewart Can Suggest it on the Daily Show, we can start a petition

You can be damn sure the 1%ers are not going to pay for this war.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. and when have they ever paid for it?

the 1% are not even a part of this country anymore.....they are Internationalists...

[Paladin]

4. I'm not expecting shit, anymore. From any politician. (nt)

[Warren Stupidity]

5. No really HRC will save us fer sure.

[Paladin]

7. I'll probably vote for her. I just won't expect much positive out of her.

[MiniMe]

17. I actually expect shit from all of them

And that is what we get, shit, literally

[world wide wally]

6. Bring it up on the floor of the house as just a "put up or shut up" proposition

[J_J_]

18. "put up or shut up" proposition- Love it!

Every member of Congress must vote to increase taxes on top earners with their yes on bombing vote.

Congress must also voluntarily reduce their own salary to that of a grunt until the war is over.

Congress must also offer up one family member each for the future 'boots on the ground'

[world wide wally]

20. Better still!

[99Forever]

8. Taxes will get raised alright...

... just not on those you think it should happen. Like always, the working class will get stuck with the bill. Again.

We never fucking learn.

[n2doc]

9. If we raise taxes the terrorists win!

The only way we can defeat them is to buckle down, cut the safety net, and lower taxes on the rich so that they might bestow their blessings upon us. Nothing else will do!

[whatchamacallit]

11. Lol! +1

[Fred Sanders]

10. Deliver us from evil....and hide the costs from us, we like that too.

[Mr.Bill]

12. Any war we enter into should be paid for in full

by a new tax. I mean a line item on your pay stub. WAR TAX - $XXX.

We would become the most peaceful nation on earth.

[groundloop]

14. DAMN STRAIGHT.... Look at what we've spent just since 9/11 waging wars

I've read that our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost each and every taxpayer between $30,000 and $40,000. I cringe when I think of how much healthcare, education, and infrastructure that could have paid for.

[IronLionZion]

13. Yeah! and defense contractors should work at cost without profit

due to patriotic duty.

tax raises should start with those making $100,000 and up a year, and cut all corporate deductions and subsidies during the war.


Shortest war ever! It will be even shorter than Grenada. Remember that war? Me neither.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Even Dennis Miller, when he was on SNL,

Called the Grenada war "Using a carrier task force to knock over a fruit stand."

[grahamhgreen]

16. Kick

[Donald Ian Rankin]

19. Yes and no respectively.

Raising taxes above the level they currently are in America is a sensible policy in general, and doubly so in response to an expensive war.

Federally limiting the pay of senior staff of arms manufacturers (assuming that's who you mean by "the CEO's of the war machine&quot is a stupid policy in general, and doubly so during an expensive war.

[J_J_]

21. the war is expensive because they are profiteering

If we took the profit out, there would be no war.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

22. Who is "we"?

The people with the power to make all the military suppliers move oversees and stop supplying the USA - which is, in effect, what your proposal would amount to - are precisely the people with the power to decide whether or not to fight a war in the first place.

If the government wants "no war", it can just achieve that directly. If it *does* want a war - which in my view is sometimes, albeit seldom, the right decision - then rendering it impossible to buy munitions is clearly a bad move.