You can keep the Iraq War spending or trade for what’s behind Door No. 2
May 7th, 2008 by Wayne Garcia in Issues & Wonky Shit
Let’s leave aside for a second whether the Iraq War to this point has been folly or necessity and take as given that any dollars we spend going forward are pretty much wasted. If that is true, the National Priorities Project has a very nifty trade-off calculator that tells us all the goodies we could have in Tampa Bay if we didn’t fund the war over the next two budget years:
Taxpayers in Tampa Bay Metro Area, Florida will pay $1.1 billion for the President’s request for additional Iraq war spending in FY2008 and FY2009. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
378,693 People with Health Care for One Year OR
The calculator lets you run similar trade-off calculations for repealing Bush’s tax cuts and other administration priorities.
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May 7th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
How much would it cost us to get Hilary to admiit defeat and stop damaging the democratic party?
May 7th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Cost of one week of campaigning = $2 million-plus
Air tickets from Tampa to Denver for convention = $185
Hillary admitting defeat = priceless
May 8th, 2008 at 1:25 am
The Pope’s gonna take a shit in the woods before that ever happens.