How Will The U.S. Pay For War With North Korea?

[TyroneSlothrop]

We really should have a war tax.

Maybe that would cause some of us to think twice before sending our kids off to be slaughtered for someone's ego.

We paid for every war up until Reagan's escalation of the Cold War, and if you look at our deficit history, you can see the consequences from then on.

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,802,619,078,308


Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) told the Washington Post that Republicans are not accurately portraying their tax bill: It isn’t a middle-class tax cut, it’s a corporate one.

Said Sanford: “Fundamentally the bill has been mislabeled. From a truth in advertising standpoint it would have been a lot simpler if we just acknowledged really on this bill, which is it’s fundamentally a corporate tax reduction and restructuring bill, period.”

 

[Kondor3]

How will the US payf or war with North Korea?

If the Chinese are foolish enough to jump-in, actively, on the North Korean side, we'll simply default on our China Debt, and take it out of resultant savings.

If the Chinese are wise enough to keep their noses out of it, we'll pay for the bulk of it ourselves, and borrow from the Chinese to offset any shortfall.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Them Chinese they play Joke
they will put Peepee in your coke

 

[Kondor3]

This free world police bullshit MUST stop.

We would do it anyway - we have the luxury of fighting our conventional wars "forward", in order to keep our own society and infrastructure intact.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The Vietnam War was paid for with a 10% federal surtax on income. Contrast that with Reagan's ramping up the Cold War while CUTTING taxes, and GW Bush cutting taxes twice, once for each war that began on his watch, lol.

 

[gipper]

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Various estimates place the cost of the U.S. military adventures in the Middle East since 2003 at $4 trillion to $6 trillion to date. This does not include additional costs that will be incurred in the future resulting from these wars.

Also, keep in mind, U.S. fighting during this century in the Middle East has been largely from the air. Most ground battles have been skirmishes against Islamic extremist guerrilla groups, not seasoned military troops with heavy artillery.

Leaving these few details about the Middle East wars behind for a moment, officials on both sides are predicting the war between the U.S. and North Korea to be inevitable, as Trump and Kim Jong-un keep upping the ante with their insults to each other.

So, taking into consideration the trillions-of-dollars of borrowed money the U.S. has already spent increasing unrest across the Middle East, with no end in sight, how will the U.S. pay the American defense industry for the war materials necessary to engage North Korea? (The corporate executives of these companies will expect their bonuses, and stockholders will certainly NOT be donating their dividends to the cause.)

Given the many insults Trump has aimed at our European allies, it’s doubtful any of them will pony up cash to loan the U.S. Plus, with the attention of the U.S. military split between the Middle East AND North Korea, Putin’s expansion into the Crimea will undoubtedly spread to other Eastern European nations. So, NATO members will have their hands full in Europe.

Also, China isn’t going to sit by and permit the destruction of their neighbor and ally North Korea. China has 2,183,000 active military troops to add to North Korea’s 1,190,000 active troops, to fight against the United States’ 1,347,300 military members.

Even with a best case scenario, where any sort of nuclear exchange can be avoided, and all action is limited to Eastern Asia, how long can the United States’ money and military hold out in a real war? Especially with the $1.5 trillion gift the GOP just gave to the 0.1% and Big Business? (The Social Security Trust Fund only has about $2 trillion in actual assets, the other $2 trillion in IOU,s from the federal government don’t count. This $2 trillion and eliminating all safety net programs could help, but not for very long in a real war.)

Any rational answers, anyone?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nkorea-says-us-threats-make-war-unavoidable-on-korean-peninsula-kcna/ar-BBGjXRI?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp


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Yes. Don't go to war.

 

[Esmeralda]

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Various estimates place the cost of the U.S. military adventures in the Middle East since 2003 at $4 trillion to $6 trillion to date. This does not include additional costs that will be incurred in the future resulting from these wars.

Also, keep in mind, U.S. fighting during this century in the Middle East has been largely from the air. Most ground battles have been skirmishes against Islamic extremist guerrilla groups, not seasoned military troops with heavy artillery.

Leaving these few details about the Middle East wars behind for a moment, officials on both sides are predicting the war between the U.S. and North Korea to be inevitable, as Trump and Kim Jong-un keep upping the ante with their insults to each other.

So, taking into consideration the trillions-of-dollars of borrowed money the U.S. has already spent increasing unrest across the Middle East, with no end in sight, how will the U.S. pay the American defense industry for the war materials necessary to engage North Korea? (The corporate executives of these companies will expect their bonuses, and stockholders will certainly NOT be donating their dividends to the cause.)

Given the many insults Trump has aimed at our European allies, it’s doubtful any of them will pony up cash to loan the U.S. Plus, with the attention of the U.S. military split between the Middle East AND North Korea, Putin’s expansion into the Crimea will undoubtedly spread to other Eastern European nations. So, NATO members will have their hands full in Europe.

Also, China isn’t going to sit by and permit the destruction of their neighbor and ally North Korea. China has 2,183,000 active military troops to add to North Korea’s 1,190,000 active troops, to fight against the United States’ 1,347,300 military members.

Even with a best case scenario, where any sort of nuclear exchange can be avoided, and all action is limited to Eastern Asia, how long can the United States’ money and military hold out in a real war? Especially with the $1.5 trillion gift the GOP just gave to the 0.1% and Big Business? (The Social Security Trust Fund only has about $2 trillion in actual assets, the other $2 trillion in IOU,s from the federal government don’t count. This $2 trillion and eliminating all safety net programs could help, but not for very long in a real war.)

Any rational answers, anyone?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nkorea-says-us-threats-make-war-unavoidable-on-korean-peninsula-kcna/ar-BBGjXRI?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp


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Wars are always paid for by the working and middle classes who bear the burden of war with their tax dollars and the lives of their sons, husbands and brothers, and today, with daughters, wives and sisters. The corportions and the wealthy make money off war and get deferrals for their children, keeping them from fighting and dying. We pay: the average Jane and Joe.

 

[Esmeralda]

The US Needs to stay out of foreign entanglements. What threat is NK to us? What compelling national interest is served by meddling in their affairs?

The threat is fat boy can send a nuke our way and hold nations ransom....this will not be allowed to happen and if China steps in they too will be destroyed and they know it. Most likely what will happen is we hit them hard and their soldiers surrender quickly. They are one year out from putting nukes on an ICBM so that's a good timeline for when any strike occurs.

Pakistan has nukes. Why not invade them too?

We should invade Britain. They have nukes and we have a history of conflict too.

I wouldn't it past The Great White Dope.

 

[Kondor3]

...Yes. Don't go to war.

Good idea.

Let's ignore Chuckle's --- the 3rd-generation Hermit King's --- first baby-steps into the world of nuclear-tipped ICBMs.

Let's wait until Kim Jong Fat-Boy has a rock-solid 200 or 300 or 400 weapon intercontinental nuclear arsenal capable of destroying Western Civilization.

Let's not bother the little baby snake.

Let's wait until it's actually grown fangs and reaches full length before we are forced to chop its head off.

Yeah... that's the ticket...

Oh, by the way, your psychic medium called, and left a message, saying that she's made contact with another ghost, perfect for you to channel...

 

[Rustic]

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Various estimates place the cost of the U.S. military adventures in the Middle East since 2003 at $4 trillion to $6 trillion to date. This does not include additional costs that will be incurred in the future resulting from these wars.

Also, keep in mind, U.S. fighting during this century in the Middle East has been largely from the air. Most ground battles have been skirmishes against Islamic extremist guerrilla groups, not seasoned military troops with heavy artillery.

Leaving these few details about the Middle East wars behind for a moment, officials on both sides are predicting the war between the U.S. and North Korea to be inevitable, as Trump and Kim Jong-un keep upping the ante with their insults to each other.

So, taking into consideration the trillions-of-dollars of borrowed money the U.S. has already spent increasing unrest across the Middle East, with no end in sight, how will the U.S. pay the American defense industry for the war materials necessary to engage North Korea? (The corporate executives of these companies will expect their bonuses, and stockholders will certainly NOT be donating their dividends to the cause.)

Given the many insults Trump has aimed at our European allies, it’s doubtful any of them will pony up cash to loan the U.S. Plus, with the attention of the U.S. military split between the Middle East AND North Korea, Putin’s expansion into the Crimea will undoubtedly spread to other Eastern European nations. So, NATO members will have their hands full in Europe.

Also, China isn’t going to sit by and permit the destruction of their neighbor and ally North Korea. China has 2,183,000 active military troops to add to North Korea’s 1,190,000 active troops, to fight against the United States’ 1,347,300 military members.

Even with a best case scenario, where any sort of nuclear exchange can be avoided, and all action is limited to Eastern Asia, how long can the United States’ money and military hold out in a real war? Especially with the $1.5 trillion gift the GOP just gave to the 0.1% and Big Business? (The Social Security Trust Fund only has about $2 trillion in actual assets, the other $2 trillion in IOU,s from the federal government don’t count. This $2 trillion and eliminating all safety net programs could help, but not for very long in a real war.)

Any rational answers, anyone?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nkorea-says-us-threats-make-war-unavoidable-on-korean-peninsula-kcna/ar-BBGjXRI?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp


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The transgender that is little Kim is all bark and no bit...

 

[gipper]

...Yes. Don't go to war.

Good idea.

Let's ignore Chuckle's --- the 3rd-generation Hermit King's --- first baby-steps into the world of nuclear-tipped ICBMs.

Let's wait until Kim Jong Fat-Boy has a rock-solid 200 or 300 or 400 weapon intercontinental nuclear arsenal capable of destroying Western Civilization.

Let's not bother the little baby snake.

Let's wait until it's actually grown fangs and reaches full length before we are forced to chop its head off.

Yeah... that's the ticket...

Oh, by the way, your psychic medium called, and left a message, saying that she's made contact with another ghost, perfect for you to channel...

We can always count on statists who think politicians should take the nation to war, causing massive death and destruction all for nothing...well not nothing. War is always about the health of the State....hence statists love it.

Or maybe you are just duped by the state run media as it inflames Americans to war...as was done so many times before. Why is it so many Americans never learn from history?

 

[ChesBayJJ]

How will we pay?

On borrowed money, of course

 

[Rustic]

If war breaks out with Korea while the GOP is in power, they will borrow the money to pay for it,

and then sometime down the road, they'll blame the Democrats for the increases in the deficits and the debt.

War costs are like pocket change compared to the money the federal government has/is wasted/ing on socialist entitlement programs... fact

 

[Kondor3]

...Yes. Don't go to war.

Good idea.

Let's ignore Chuckle's --- the 3rd-generation Hermit King's --- first baby-steps into the world of nuclear-tipped ICBMs.

Let's wait until Kim Jong Fat-Boy has a rock-solid 200 or 300 or 400 weapon intercontinental nuclear arsenal capable of destroying Western Civilization.

Let's not bother the little baby snake.

Let's wait until it's actually grown fangs and reaches full length before we are forced to chop its head off.

Yeah... that's the ticket...

Oh, by the way, your psychic medium called, and left a message, saying that she's made contact with another ghost, perfect for you to channel...

We can always count on statists who think politicians should take the nation to war, causing massive death and destruction all for nothing...well not nothing. War is always about the health of the State....hence statists love it.

Or maybe you are just duped by the state run media as it inflames Americans to war...as was done so many times before. Why is it so many Americans never learn from history?

Indeed.

Why do so many Americans not learn from history?

Had we stopped Hitler in the 1930s, 50,000,000 people would have survived the 1940s, and the Cold War would never have happened.

Learning from history, indeed.

 

[gipper]

...Yes. Don't go to war.

Good idea.

Let's ignore Chuckle's --- the 3rd-generation Hermit King's --- first baby-steps into the world of nuclear-tipped ICBMs.

Let's wait until Kim Jong Fat-Boy has a rock-solid 200 or 300 or 400 weapon intercontinental nuclear arsenal capable of destroying Western Civilization.

Let's not bother the little baby snake.

Let's wait until it's actually grown fangs and reaches full length before we are forced to chop its head off.

Yeah... that's the ticket...

Oh, by the way, your psychic medium called, and left a message, saying that she's made contact with another ghost, perfect for you to channel...

We can always count on statists who think politicians should take the nation to war, causing massive death and destruction all for nothing...well not nothing. War is always about the health of the State....hence statists love it.

Or maybe you are just duped by the state run media as it inflames Americans to war...as was done so many times before. Why is it so many Americans never learn from history?

Indeed.

Why do so many Americans not learn from history?

Had we stopped Hitler in the 1930s, 50,000,000 people would have survived the 1940s, and the Cold War would never have happened.

Learning from history, indeed.

I don't buy your propaganda. Sorry.

 

[NYcarbineer]

If war breaks out with Korea while the GOP is in power, they will borrow the money to pay for it,

and then sometime down the road, they'll blame the Democrats for the increases in the deficits and the debt.

War costs are like pocket change compared to the money the federal government has/is wasted/ing on socialist entitlement programs... fact

that's the usual excuse for not paying for wars.

 

[gipper]

...Yes. Don't go to war.

Good idea.

Let's ignore Chuckle's --- the 3rd-generation Hermit King's --- first baby-steps into the world of nuclear-tipped ICBMs.

Let's wait until Kim Jong Fat-Boy has a rock-solid 200 or 300 or 400 weapon intercontinental nuclear arsenal capable of destroying Western Civilization.

Let's not bother the little baby snake.

Let's wait until it's actually grown fangs and reaches full length before we are forced to chop its head off.

Yeah... that's the ticket...

Oh, by the way, your psychic medium called, and left a message, saying that she's made contact with another ghost, perfect for you to channel...

We can always count on statists who think politicians should take the nation to war, causing massive death and destruction all for nothing...well not nothing. War is always about the health of the State....hence statists love it.

Or maybe you are just duped by the state run media as it inflames Americans to war...as was done so many times before. Why is it so many Americans never learn from history?

Indeed.

Why do so many Americans not learn from history?

Had we stopped Hitler in the 1930s, 50,000,000 people would have survived the 1940s, and the Cold War would never have happened.

Learning from history, indeed.

Here is a profound quote from George Orwell, in which you should take to heart.

"The ruling class in every age have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers."

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

We really should have a war tax.

Maybe that would cause some of us to think twice before sending our kids off to be slaughtered for someone's ego.

We paid for every war up until Reagan's escalation of the Cold War, and if you look at our deficit history, you can see the consequences from then on.

We paid for every war up until Reagan's escalation of the Cold War

Gross Federal Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product

Really? Looks like we borrowed about 70% of GDP to pay for WWII.

 

[NYcarbineer]

We really should have a war tax.

Maybe that would cause some of us to think twice before sending our kids off to be slaughtered for someone's ego.

We paid for every war up until Reagan's escalation of the Cold War, and if you look at our deficit history, you can see the consequences from then on.

We paid for every war up until Reagan's escalation of the Cold War

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Gross Federal Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product

Really? Looks like we borrowed about 70% of GDP to pay for WWII.

We really should have a war tax.

Maybe that would cause some of us to think twice before sending our kids off to be slaughtered for someone's ego.

We paid for every war up until Reagan's escalation of the Cold War, and if you look at our deficit history, you can see the consequences from then on.

We paid for every war up until Reagan's escalation of the Cold War

View attachment 164721



Gross Federal Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product

Really? Looks like we borrowed about 70% of GDP to pay for WWII.

 

[NYcarbineer]

If war breaks out with Korea while the GOP is in power, they will borrow the money to pay for it,

and then sometime down the road, they'll blame the Democrats for the increases in the deficits and the debt.

War costs are like pocket change compared to the money the federal government has/is wasted/ing on socialist entitlement programs... fact

So I guess you would have recommended that GW Bush cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid to pay for the Iraq war?