How do we pay for America's blunder in Iraq?

Question

Should we have a box on the 1040 EZ form (I know the long tax form filers would be too smart for that) that we can check off and pay some extra money in our taxes to pay for the war?
You know, just like you can donate to presidential campaigns if you want to.
Or should we just tell the government that we will pay our taxes later, since they don't really have to pay for the war right now anyway?

My question again is, How do we pay for it?

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Answer 1

You mean, besides an extra 3 trillion dollars of debt, and over 2600 American dead and tens of thousands wounded?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

This is cheap compared to the costs, both in lives and money, we and the rest of the world would have had to pay if we had done nothing.
Remember WWII? If we'd done something after The Great War, other than stick our heads int he sand for 20 years, WWII wouldn't have had to happen. We would still have all those people, all those monuments, all the income those people would have produced and so on.
War IS NOT the opposite of peace. It is often a protective reaction to protect a nation from the spread of evil.
Do you really believe that the ravenous dogs to breeding on your doorstep will be satisfied with a few bits of raw meat?
Do you not think that allowing one terrorist organization to walk all over us one time would be the end?
Bullies never stop until they are stopped by force. If you want to reason with them, go ahead. You first.
No, war isn't cheap. Waah. But it is one heck of a lot cheaper than the alternative. Pull your head out of the sand.

Answer 4

Maybe we should cut out all the pork barrel projects Democrats fund for the sake of just taxing and use that money to pay for this so called blunder. Then with the rest of the money use it to help the Katrina victims and give back to the rest of America.

Answer 5

By blunder, do you mean- Bill Clinton not helping the U.N. enforce their resolutions so that we wouldn't have to be in Iraq now?

Or do you mean- George Bush Sr. complying with the U.N.'s order to stop Operation Desert Storm before the job was done and we got Saddam?

Or do you mean Bill Clinton failing to get Osama Bin Laden when he was offered to us by the Sudanese, so we could expose Al-Qaeda's ties to Saddam, and maybe even prevent 9/11?

Answer 6

No, your question assumes it was a blunder which is a blunder. Since 1898, and the Spanish American war, and we were given the Phillipines, we have griped and complained, We can't do it. It's too hard. It's costing too much.

Over that 108 years, we spread liberty over a major part of the world. Yet, you guys still whine, We can't do it. It's too hard. it's costing too much.

Answer 7

Cash please! Complete destruction of a country, mentally scarring millions of innocent people. What do you get in compensation in the U.S, if someone accidentally breaks a fingernail? a million dollars? How much money does america have?

Answer 8

We'll be paying for this mistake for a long time. It's time to quit buying into Bush's fear tactics and bring the troops home from Iraq and spend those BILLIONS of dollars on homeland security. It's time America stood up for what's right.

Answer 9

We won't, but our children will. Another answer would be yo use the Social Security surplus, oh I forgot we already did that one it financed the first 3 months of the war. I guess that raising taxes is out of the question. Then it is up to our children they are our only hope, because the current generation just lives for today.

Answer 10

Have Dubya and his supporters pay for it. They're the ones that want this war so bad.