Americans, did you agree to pay a total of $134 Billion of your taxes to Israel?

Question

That's $23,240 per Israeli

http://www.washington-report.org/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm

Answer 1

psst. a little known fact for ya... America is a continent with 34 nations not a country.

There is no such a thing as ‘American’ nationality, America is not a nation America is a continent with many nations in it. The US never named itself the name of the United States is a designation it comes from the end of the Declaration of Independence, "WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled...". The preamble to the U.S. Constitution reiterated the phrase: "We the People of the United States..." (The authors of these two documents probably used the phrase "united states" in place of a list of colonies/states because they remained uncertain at the time of drafting which colonies/states would sign off on the sentiments therein.) The geographic term "America" specifies the states' home on the American continent.

It is therefor incorrect to refer to US citizens as Americans with the intent of denoting citizenship, or the United States as America with the intent of denoting a nation. Americans have a term for US citizens, we are called United Statesians by the rest of Americans, to say American with the intent of denoting citizenship or America when we mean the United States reflects poorly on our attitude towards the 70% of Americans that are not United Statesians.

Answer 2

Hell no, when did that thing go into effect. That's just another thing that the world can say bad about "Americans". "Americans are wrong" etc.... Those types of things cause us americans to look bad... $134 billion... that is a lot of my hard earned tax money to go towards... Why cant it go towards building better schools... or helping the homeless & unfortunate out.... or f u c k, even go into outter space for all I care.... not to some country that is fighting their own wars... WE have problems here in the US, fix those first!

Answer 3

We have sent countless billions to all countries on the face of this earth in one form or the other. Is it always a good investment? That opinion will vary. Were the investments in Kuwait good? How about Lebanon? There are so many countries that have benefited from the US taxpayers. Perhaps it is time to acknowledge this.

Answer 4

no one did, but we have leaders in this country who don't much care about our own people, and we as a nation, as a group, don't have enough guts to stand on our hind legs and get these idiots out of office. This is a wealthy country, and no one should be starving. However, our administration feels it is more important to have young punks flying around in $20mil jets than educating and taking care of our young, poor and old....... It's been going on so long, not just this administration but others as well. However, most of us think that the american public has had just about enuff of the bush admin, and the republicans. We can't do much worse, so you'll probably see most of them canned in the next election for just about anyone else.

Answer 5

So be it. I'm angrier at the trillions unconstitutionally wasted on welfare, social security, medicaid, medicare, agricultural welfare, corporate welfare, tariffs, price supports, affirmative discrimination, etc.

If our foreign policy has been to support Israel, then that is a good thing, regardless of the small cost. Foreign aid is an executive decision by the government we elect, and is legal with respect to the Constitution.

Answer 6

No, I did not agree to pay to ensure a terrorist state of Israel. This is a country the size of New Jersey. I still don't see why the British chose such a small place to send billions of Jews. Don't come back at me with the "G.D's chosen people" crap. If G.D was going to choose people to represent him, it sure wouldn't be murderous slime who have no belief in G.D to begin with. The Zionist regime of the so called "state of Israel" is nothing but occupied Palestine.

Answer 7

How about taking a more realistic look at these numbers, and break it down on a per person basis.

The site you referred us to states that the amount of money given to Israel breaks down to $23,240 per Israeli. If divided by the number of years in the referenced survey (48 years) that comes to $484.16 per Israeli, per year. Suddenly that's not such a big number.

It gets even smaller if you consider the number of Americans (298,000,000) vs. number of Israelis (7,000,000). Looked at in this light, the amount comes to $1.62 per American per year. That is the exact amount I paid for a tall coffee at Starbuck's this morning.

So essentially, for that past 48 years, each American has provided 1 coffee per year to Israel. Sounds like chump change to me.

Answer 8

Americans have little control over where our taxes go.
That wont excuse Lebannon's blatant lack of responsibility in not restraining Hezbollah. I'd love to spend less on keeping the middle east from peeing itself into oblivion.

I wonder what you could to to make that happen?

Answer 9

There are countless things my tax money goes to that I did not agree to.

Israel runs the financial institutions that keep the US going. It's just the way it is.

Answer 10

Well, I am happy you brought up this queston but we can't do anything becaue Bush wanted votes so he made sweet deals with Israel so all the Jews in America could vote for him. Its funny, our Pres cares more about others and less about his own people.

PS. Watch, when I post this some idiot is gonna say "He is anti-Jew."