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Will Americans ever tire of this Permanent War Agenda?
War On Terror Costs Taxpayers $250 Million a Day
Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi
The US government has spent a staggering $1.46 trillion on wars abroad since September 11, 2001, according to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) periodical “Cost of War” report. As International Business Times[URL='http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/defense-department-war-terror-has-cost-250-million-day-16-years-2608639'] reports, this amounts to $250 million a day for 16 years consecutively.
The newly released version, published by the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy News blog, spans war-related activity from the September 11th terrorist attacks through mid-2017.[/URL]
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc...-on-terror-costs-taxpayers-250-million-a-day/
It must be noted that this analysis only covers direct war-related expenses and is certainly on the lower side of such estimates of the cost of American wars to date. For example, in 2014, a[URL='http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf'] report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm found that the government had already shelled out over $1.6 trillion for the war on terror. That estimate would amount to approximately $337 million per day every single day for that 13-year period...[/URL]
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc...-on-terror-costs-taxpayers-250-million-a-day/
War On Terror Costs Taxpayers $250 Million a Day
Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi
The US government has spent a staggering $1.46 trillion on wars abroad since September 11, 2001, according to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) periodical “Cost of War” report. As International Business Times[URL='http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/defense-department-war-terror-has-cost-250-million-day-16-years-2608639'] reports, this amounts to $250 million a day for 16 years consecutively.
The newly released version, published by the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy News blog, spans war-related activity from the September 11th terrorist attacks through mid-2017.[/URL]
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc...-on-terror-costs-taxpayers-250-million-a-day/
It must be noted that this analysis only covers direct war-related expenses and is certainly on the lower side of such estimates of the cost of American wars to date. For example, in 2014, a[URL='http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf'] report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm found that the government had already shelled out over $1.6 trillion for the war on terror. That estimate would amount to approximately $337 million per day every single day for that 13-year period...[/URL]
Read More:
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc...-on-terror-costs-taxpayers-250-million-a-day/
