Cost of Iraq war: " We All Owe $1,075."

[kpete]

Cost of Iraq war: $1,075 each
Aug. 23, 2006

The National Priorities Project has calculated the cost of the Iraq war by congressional district, city, state and even household.

You owe $1,075.

The NPP bills itself as a non-partisan, non-profit organization that uses government data to illustrate the impact of federal policies on local communities. It targets large ticket government programs and tax breaks -- mostly dear to Republicans -- for scrutiny, including tax breaks for the top 1 percent of earners, the cost of missile defense, maintaining a massive nuclear weapon arsenal, and the Iraq war.

NPP bases its Iraq war calculations on a Congressional Research Service report from June, which totaled the war at $318.5 billion.

"That is $2,844 for every American household or $1,075 for every American. The money (already spent or allocated) is being spent at a rate $10 million per hour and $244 million per day," according to NPP.

http://washtimes.com/upi/20060823-051747-8542r.htm

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. "No Death Tax for me!" Gimme my Iraqnam tax instead!

[liberal N proud]

2. Let's all send bills to our republican friends/enemies asking them to

Ante up.
Tell them to send cash and we will make sure it gets to the right place.

You would be surprised how many of them would think that you are serious and would handle the process for them because they would think you are a good patriot.

[rumpel]

3. How about passing it on to those that still want the war

and cheer it on - from now on.

:mad:

[damntexdem]

4. No, I don't owe that much -- I itemize:

so subtract the costs associated with working against the war since before Dubya had us invade.

[rumpel]

6. Good one. You forgot all the misappropriated & lost funds

unaccounted for expenses of KBR & Halliburton
and all the necessary body armor supplied by the families and friends of the armed forces and not paid by government as collective penalty and reimburseable to the familes and friends with punitive damages.

and I sure don't want to pay for the fake turkey for *'s photo op.

[bahrbearian]

5. Oh so it only cost ,,"$318.5 billion"

Who believes that crap? the Pentagon said it needs to replace $400 billion worth of equipment that was used over there,,"over there , over there ,we must fight them Over there"
.

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Straight to the Source: The National Priorities website

The National Priorities website.

Just click 'n' surf.

--p!

[man4allcats]

8. Good luck!

I'm so broke I can't even afford to pay attention.

[Ilsa]

9. They can fucking bill me.

But you can't sqeeze blood out of a turnip.

[Frustratedlady]

10. $318.5 billion? There's no way that figure is right.

Don't forget the double bookkeeping system they use, as in one set for public consumption and one set under the bed.