Comments on: “Pay as you fight”

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:46:18 +0000

dan says:

“What happened to barry’s promise not to raise our taxes?”

Hey, you want a war, you gotta pay. *Now* you’ve got something invested in it, doncha?

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:25:26 +0000

You can be for raising taxes to pay for the war (which is what should have been done in the first place), but disagree with the particular proposal in question.

e’re spending tens of billions a year just on developing/deploying new weapons systems we’re mot going to need in the foreseeable future.

We’re going to need them if you want an Army that can fight without taking serious casualties in the next decade or two. A lot of our hardware is legacy stuff from the 1980s that’s been retrofitted repeatedly, and it’s getting old.

By: Bill Nance

Bill Nance — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:50:47 +0000

You could pay most of the tab for Afghanistan by doing nothing more than trimming all the BS weapon systems development and eliminating a lot of the paper pushing jobs in the Pentagon. We’re spending tens of billions a year just on developing/deploying new weapons systems we’re mot going to need in the foreseeable future. Look at the Zumwalt cruisers for God’s sake. One BILLION each. the navy doesn’t want them, the thing has been showed to be extremely vulnerable and we’re building several anyway thanks to congress.

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By: dan

dan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:13:23 +0000

What happened to barry’s promise not to raise our taxes?

By: Tony P.

Tony P. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:38:37 +0000

Mark,

Is your title an homage to Beardsley Ruml? “Pay as you go” was the slogan for the Ruml plan, introduced during WW2, which instituted income tax withholding.

–TP