2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFunny how there is always enough money and support
to go to war or supplying other countries with weapons but no support to help fellow Americans with education costs and/or healthcare................
The War On Terror Has Cost Taxpayers $1.7 Trillion
According to data compiled by the Mercatus Center citing the Congressional Research Service, the cost of global War on Terror operations (including both Afghanistan and Iraq) since 2001 had reached about $1.6 trillion by FY2014. When war funding approved by Congress for FY2015 is taken into account, the total reaches $1.7 trillion.
The majority of that funding, some $1.562 trillion, has been allocated to the Department of Defense. The War on Terror is proving extremely expensive compared to past military campaigns. Putting the cost into context, the bill for the Vietnam War comes to about $686 billion when adjusted for inflation.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/02/03/the-war-on-terror-has-cost-taxpayers-1-7-trillion-infographic/#79a835e75cf07db908405cf0
Ohh and I forgot our friends on Wall Street....
The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is often put at $700 billionthe size of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. But TARP is just the tip of the iceberg of money paid out or set aside by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve. In her book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, Nomi Prins uncovers the hush-hush programs and crunches the hidden numbers to calculate the shocking actual size of the bailout: $14.4 trillion and counting.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/real-size-bailout-treasury-fed
global1
(25,265 posts)They don't want higher taxes but are willing to spend millions trying to get somebody elected.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)The War On Terror Has Cost Taxpayers $1.7 Trillion
According to data compiled by the Mercatus Center citing the Congressional Research Service, the cost of global War on Terror operations (including both Afghanistan and Iraq) since 2001 had reached about $1.6 trillion by FY2014. When war funding approved by Congress for FY2015 is taken into account, the total reaches $1.7 trillion.
The majority of that funding, some $1.562 trillion, has been allocated to the Department of Defense. The War on Terror is proving extremely expensive compared to past military campaigns. Putting the cost into context, the bill for the Vietnam War comes to about $686 billion when adjusted for inflation.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/02/03/the-war-on-terror-has-cost-taxpayers-1-7-trillion-infographic/#79a835e75cf07db908405cf0
kimbutgar
(21,177 posts)If they paid living wages they'd probably spend less money one run. And If they paid higher taxes the return on investment to them would be higher profits. Because the country would be more productive got everyone.
But they are so greedy they can't think beyond their bottom line.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is often put at $700 billionthe size of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. But TARP is just the tip of the iceberg of money paid out or set aside by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve. In her book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, Nomi Prins uncovers the hush-hush programs and crunches the hidden numbers to calculate the shocking actual size of the bailout: $14.4 trillion and counting.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/real-size-bailout-treasury-fed
cui bono
(19,926 posts)We are their real life monopoly board game.
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UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)We pay they play
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)The Reluctant Presidential Candidate who has and continues to rise to the occasion. Why? There's no one else. Now we'll see what the country wants...and we will see because the choices have become stark.