Instead of just saying that the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans should be allowed to expire, let's say that the money saved should be earmarked to the "veterans trust fund" proposed by Rep. Filner and economists Joe Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes to pay the government's obligation to veterans' care due to the current wars. The numbers are roughly the same order of magnitude: a trillion saved over the next ten years if the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans are allowed to expire, between $589 billion and $934 billion estimated need, depending on how long the wars last and how many troops are deployed. Once the veterans' trust fund is fully funded, we can consider restoring the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans, thereby giving America's politically influential super-rich a strong incentive to push back against the permanent war.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/robin-hood-taxes-to-pay-f_b_768171.html http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/19/121153/43 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/732 -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
