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In reply to the discussion: So, how does Obama's war get paid for? Can we have an special tax on the wealthiest? Can [View all]grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)poignant when when we compare the costs, in real terms, as to the suffering that will be brought here at home from cuts to social welfare programs, food for grannies, and an increase burden on the middle and lower classes who will be forced to pay for this boondoggle.
In the end, it becomes a way of funneling money from the lower classes to the higher classes involved in military profiteering.
This is just yet another, in a long ongoing continuation of the neocon policies of the Bush administration. That is why I am disappointed. Would it be so bad for the President to actually represent the will of the majority in this case, as he failed to do with health care, prosecution of war crimes, prosecution of banksters, chained-cpi, extension of the Bush tax cuts, failure to prosecute BP, etc?
If the money can be found so easily, then let the hoarding class pay with a special tax.