An automatic tax surcharge to pay for military action. What a great idea!
If Congress would take this opportunity to set up an automatic surcharge, when certain conditions are met, we'd have no more "off budget" war spending, like we did when Bush and Co. added trillions to the national debt by paying for the war with supplemental, off-books funding.
As the author of this piece says, "If military action is worth our troops blood, it should be worth our treasure, too not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/o...?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130211&_r=0
If Congress would take this opportunity to set up an automatic surcharge, when certain conditions are met, we'd have no more "off budget" war spending, like we did when Bush and Co. added trillions to the national debt by paying for the war with supplemental, off-books funding.
As the author of this piece says, "If military action is worth our troops blood, it should be worth our treasure, too not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/o...?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130211&_r=0