Democrats Propose To Tax Iraq War
Posted on October 2, 2007
It was enivitable that a Democrat would come up with this desperate maneuver. Taxes seem to be the answer to everything for a democrat, even a transparent bluff.
Three top House Democrats are proposing a “war surtax†to fund the Iraq war.
“If the president really is concerned about stopping red ink, we are prepared to introduce legislation which will provide for a war surtax for that portion of military costs that are related to our military actions in Iraq,†Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, says, according to Reuters.
The Politico reports members of the Democratic leadership say they’ll oppose any spending bills that don’t include a plan to end the 4-year-old conflict. Under the surtax proposal, taxpayers would pay extra taxes — ranging from 2% to 15% based on income — designed to raise $140 billion a year for the war effort.
Of course it will get shot down fast. Jim McCrery nails it:
“This proposal would be detrimental to our economy and our national security. It has become clear over the past year that the Majority’s response to any public policy issue is to raise taxes, but this is ridiculous. Trying to coerce the American people into cutting and running from Iraq with the threat of an astronomical tax increase is cynical and transparent.â€
I can’t say it better than Michelle already has:
Nothing screams impotence louder than a desperate, last-ditch effort to tax the war on terror to death.
How do they continue to be so clueless? How do you say, ‘DOA’ in Congressional language? Even Pelosi scoffs!
“Just as I have opposed the war from the outset, I am … opposed to a war surtax,” Pelosi said.
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It is already taxed as that is where the money comes from. This is just an excuse to raise the taxes. I doubt very much they would lower such a tax at the end of this current conflict.
So how do we pay for it? Anyone who wages war without thinking about funding is no
fiscal conservative. Anyone who is unwilling to put their money up to defend our nation
is no patriot.