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How much do these bombs cost to make, transport, and drop on the enemy?
I have heard reports that we have dropped 175 bombs on ISIS' targets? I have no idea how much that is costing American taxpayers but I would hope it is diminishing the enemy's capacity to continue?
Should "war" be looked at from a cost/benefit perspective?
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)They always ask that about everything, but not this war escalation????
War profiteers get their money from taxpayers. Where are they taking it from? Will we hear again, we must give up Medicare and Soc Sec?
Where's the Cat Food Committee? Why not put this shit on the table instead????
Tax Exxon Mobil. Quarterly profits alone will probably fund it...if it's actually for just a short time. But I don't really believe that either.
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and I think we all know where the elsewhere is.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)The bombs are sitting on aircraft carriers and we'd be paying for those to move around the world whether or not we we actually using them, so the transport portion is a cost we would incur regardless of current policy.
If we looked at war from a standard cost/benefit perspective and truly examined ROI, there would be no war.