10 ways to pay for an Iraq war

[Grasshopper27]

Yes, yet another stupid Iraq thread... 😀

THE CBO?S estimate, released last week, is that prosecuting a war against Saddam Hussein?s regime would cost $10 billion in the first month and then $8 billion a month thereafter. The CBO analysts did not address the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq.

1. SUBJECT ALL EARNED INCOME TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX: $66 billion.
2. INCREASE TAXES ON MOTOR FUEL BY 12 CENTS PER GALLON: $15.3 billion.
3. RAISE THE TAX ON CIGARETTES BY 50 CENTS PER PACK: $6.6 billion.
4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion.
5. REPEAL TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES: $3 billion.
6. INCREASE FEES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: $2.6 billion.
7. END THE TAX BREAK FOR ALCOHOL FUELS AND LIMIT FARM SUBSIDIES: $950 million.
8. ABOLISH THE TAX BREAK FOR AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD: $700 million.
9. GET RID OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT LOAN SUBSIDY: $625 million.
10. ELIMINATE EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS: $263 million.

Linky

: ) Hopper

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Grasshopper27
Yes, yet another stupid Iraq thread... 😀

THE CBO?S estimate, released last week, is that prosecuting a war against Saddam Hussein?s regime would cost $10 billion in the first month and then $8 billion a month thereafter. The CBO analysts did not address the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq.

1. SUBJECT ALL EARNED INCOME TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX: $66 billion.
2. INCREASE TAXES ON MOTOR FUEL BY 12 CENTS PER GALLON: $15.3 billion.
3. RAISE THE TAX ON CIGARETTES BY 50 CENTS PER PACK: $6.6 billion.
4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion.
5. REPEAL TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES: $3 billion.
6. INCREASE FEES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: $2.6 billion.
7. END THE TAX BREAK FOR ALCOHOL FUELS AND LIMIT FARM SUBSIDIES: $950 million.
8. ABOLISH THE TAX BREAK FOR AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD: $700 million.
9. GET RID OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT LOAN SUBSIDY: $625 million.
10. ELIMINATE EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS: $263 million.

Linky

: ) Hopper

How about we just tax the sale of Iraqi oil until we are paid back 😉
Bill

 

[Hossenfeffer]

2 words: "Bake Sale"

 

[Red Dawn]

And Bush was talking about cutting taxes in his State of the Union Speech

 

[Rudee]

Wow, Grasshopper.... do you realize that 2 out of every 3 of your threads are about Iraq? I think you should give it a bit of a rest dude. What in God's name are you going to talk about once the war is over and done with. The weather? 😉

 

[yoda291]

Someone explain the concept of a deficit to me, I think I'll be hearing it a lot on the news soon.

 

[KeyserSoze]

4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





KeyserSoze

 

[hagbard]

Originally posted by: Grasshopper27
Yes, yet another stupid Iraq thread... 😀

THE CBO?S estimate, released last week, is that prosecuting a war against Saddam Hussein?s regime would cost $10 billion in the first month and then $8 billion a month thereafter. The CBO analysts did not address the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq.

1. SUBJECT ALL EARNED INCOME TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX: $66 billion.
2. INCREASE TAXES ON MOTOR FUEL BY 12 CENTS PER GALLON: $15.3 billion.
3. RAISE THE TAX ON CIGARETTES BY 50 CENTS PER PACK: $6.6 billion.
4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion.
5. REPEAL TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES: $3 billion.
6. INCREASE FEES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: $2.6 billion.
7. END THE TAX BREAK FOR ALCOHOL FUELS AND LIMIT FARM SUBSIDIES: $950 million.
8. ABOLISH THE TAX BREAK FOR AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD: $700 million.
9. GET RID OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT LOAN SUBSIDY: $625 million.
10. ELIMINATE EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS: $263 million.

Linky

: ) Hopper

Thought the US had a huge debt already? Seems like one day it will be time to pay the piper.

11. Panhandle.

 

[BD231]

Originally posted by: KeyserSoze

4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





KeyserSoze

Heh heh heh. I think there's a little to much drinking going on in the US :Q.

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Wow, Grasshopper.... do you realize that 2 out of every 3 of your threads are about Iraq? I think you should give it a bit of a rest dude.

hopper's helicopter flies itself...why you think he has so much time to nef 😉

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: hagbard

Originally posted by: Grasshopper27
Yes, yet another stupid Iraq thread... 😀

THE CBO?S estimate, released last week, is that prosecuting a war against Saddam Hussein?s regime would cost $10 billion in the first month and then $8 billion a month thereafter. The CBO analysts did not address the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq.

1. SUBJECT ALL EARNED INCOME TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX: $66 billion.
2. INCREASE TAXES ON MOTOR FUEL BY 12 CENTS PER GALLON: $15.3 billion.
3. RAISE THE TAX ON CIGARETTES BY 50 CENTS PER PACK: $6.6 billion.
4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion.
5. REPEAL TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES: $3 billion.
6. INCREASE FEES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: $2.6 billion.
7. END THE TAX BREAK FOR ALCOHOL FUELS AND LIMIT FARM SUBSIDIES: $950 million.
8. ABOLISH THE TAX BREAK FOR AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD: $700 million.
9. GET RID OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT LOAN SUBSIDY: $625 million.
10. ELIMINATE EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS: $263 million.

Linky

: ) Hopper

Thought the US had a huge debt already? Seems like one day it will be time to pay the piper.

11. Panhandle.

You wish. When we go down, everybody goes down.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

That is direct costs and best case.

TCO of the whole dang thing more realistically goes from 500 billion to 2 trillion depending on how it goes and how long we stay.

 

[Harvey]

How about just billing the runaway billionaires from Enron, Golbal Crossing, World Com, etc.? And don't forget Dickwad Cheyney's old haunt, Haliburton. I'm still wondering why he's not headed for the same jail cell with the Enron boys.

 

[ScottyB]

12. Just don't go.

 

[tweakmm]

I say in the honor of Poindexter we should start selling coke
Hey, it worked in Nicaragua

 

[ScottyB]

13. Charge Bush, Cheney and the rest of the cabinet $1,000,000 each for every civilian fatality and casulity.

 

[PistachioByAzul]

Washington pays out of their own pocket.

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I say in the honor of Poindexter we should start selling coke
Hey, it worked in Nicaragua

I like it. 🙂

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy

Originally posted by: hagbard

Originally posted by: Grasshopper27
Yes, yet another stupid Iraq thread... 😀

THE CBO?S estimate, released last week, is that prosecuting a war against Saddam Hussein?s regime would cost $10 billion in the first month and then $8 billion a month thereafter. The CBO analysts did not address the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq.

1. SUBJECT ALL EARNED INCOME TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX: $66 billion.
2. INCREASE TAXES ON MOTOR FUEL BY 12 CENTS PER GALLON: $15.3 billion.
3. RAISE THE TAX ON CIGARETTES BY 50 CENTS PER PACK: $6.6 billion.
4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion.
5. REPEAL TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES: $3 billion.
6. INCREASE FEES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: $2.6 billion.
7. END THE TAX BREAK FOR ALCOHOL FUELS AND LIMIT FARM SUBSIDIES: $950 million.
8. ABOLISH THE TAX BREAK FOR AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD: $700 million.
9. GET RID OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT LOAN SUBSIDY: $625 million.
10. ELIMINATE EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS: $263 million.

Linky

: ) Hopper

Thought the US had a huge debt already? Seems like one day it will be time to pay the piper.

11. Panhandle.

You wish. When we go down, everybody goes down.

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: Harvey

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I say in the honor of Poindexter we should start selling coke
Hey, it worked in Nicaragua

I like it. 🙂

me too 😉

 

[justint]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Grasshopper27
Yes, yet another stupid Iraq thread... 😀

THE CBO?S estimate, released last week, is that prosecuting a war against Saddam Hussein?s regime would cost $10 billion in the first month and then $8 billion a month thereafter. The CBO analysts did not address the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq.

1. SUBJECT ALL EARNED INCOME TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX: $66 billion.
2. INCREASE TAXES ON MOTOR FUEL BY 12 CENTS PER GALLON: $15.3 billion.
3. RAISE THE TAX ON CIGARETTES BY 50 CENTS PER PACK: $6.6 billion.
4. INCREASE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TAXES: $4 billion.
5. REPEAL TAX BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES: $3 billion.
6. INCREASE FEES FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY: $2.6 billion.
7. END THE TAX BREAK FOR ALCOHOL FUELS AND LIMIT FARM SUBSIDIES: $950 million.
8. ABOLISH THE TAX BREAK FOR AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD: $700 million.
9. GET RID OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT LOAN SUBSIDY: $625 million.
10. ELIMINATE EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS: $263 million.

Linky

: ) Hopper

How about we just tax the sale of Iraqi oil until we are paid back 😉
Bill

That would be stealing. I second the bake sale idea.

 

[hagbard]

14. Make Etech pay for it.

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: vtqanh

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy

Originally posted by: hagbard
Thought the US had a huge debt already? Seems like one day it will be time to pay the piper.

11. Panhandle.

You wish. When we go down, everybody goes down.

So the fall of the US wouldn't have a devestating effect on the world economy? Right

 

[BigJelly]

Originally posted by: Harvey
How about just billing the runaway billionaires from Enron, Golbal Crossing, World Com, etc.? And don't forget Dickwad Cheyney's old haunt, Haliburton. I'm still wondering why he's not headed for the same jail cell with the Enron boys.

Especially since Clinton cleared out so many cells.

 

[Napalm]

I second etech paying for this - he seems to be all in favour of this invasion no matter what the cost...

N

PS. How many Anandtechers in CT? Am here (near Danbury) in the good old U.S. of A. on business. Y'all have been so nice to me so far... 🙂