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Posted on 10/30/2009 3:42:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Rep. John Murtha on Thursday said he is open to raising taxes if President Barack Obama decides to send more troops to Afghanistan.
“This is an expensive proposition,” Murtha (D-Pa.) told The Hill. “If we send more troops over, how are we going to pay for them? We should raise taxes.”
In a subsequent interview on Thursday, Murtha said he is not recommending raising taxes, but stressed it should be considered.
Murtha’s comments are significant. As chairman of the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee, he controls the purse strings for any troop surge in Afghanistan.
Murtha wants an honest accounting of war funds, something Democrats say was not done during the George W. Bush administration. Congress has approved about $893 billion in supplemental spending to fund war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years.
“If we want to put these troops in, we ought to pay for them,” Murtha said. “In my mind, you should pay for the cost whatever way. How do you do it? You can take it out of other programs or you can raise taxes.”
Murtha said he fears a similar situation to the one in the late 1970s, when in the aftermath of the Vietnam War interest rates skyrocketed to double digits.
Lawmakers did not offset the costs of the Vietnam War.
“We have the same thing here. We are not paying for the godd—n war,” Murtha said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
See this website Defense Subcommittee and this (large PDF) document: 2010 Earmark Certification Letters (note: although the letters are addressed to Obey and Lewis...they appear on Murtha's page...that should be a "little" hint).
Murtha said he fears a similar situation to the one in the late 1970s, when in the aftermath of the Vietnam War interest rates skyrocketed to double digits.
Lawmakers did not offset the costs of the Vietnam War.
“We have the same thing here. We are not paying for the godd—n war,” Murtha said
MONEY QOUE: They are setting up the war to blame for the coming financial disaster..nevermind that Zero spent as much in 3 months as both wars cost over 8 years...
That’s exactly right. It’s a smoke screen to cover their theft of the stimuloss money and the repaid TARP funds that Geithner refuses to put back into the treasury.
Murtha wants an honest
Trying to get a democrat to cut spending is like trying to get a vampire to come out into the sunlight.
Murtha is open to raising taxes to fund his earmarks.
....I remember that time well....LBJ didn’t have enough money to pay for BOTH the Great Society programs and Vietnam....so he went to printing money...that screwed up the economy that floundered around until Paul Volker jacked up the prime to 19%....bitter medicine, but it worked and set the stage for the Reagan recovery.
Last nail in the coffin of our economy.
A troop surge in Afghanistan is useless. Our current war isn’t against a country, it’s against a global collection of fanatics who are bent on our destruction. We should bring our people home and send out thousands of CIA assassins to just quietly get rid of the malcontents and terrorists that are our real enemy. These people are everywhere and need to be hit where they live. Since they live in Detroit, Lackawanna, London, Paris, Kabul, Singapore and everywhere else, this has to be done by an army of secret assassins who can remain anonymous and secret. This will never happen until we can rid ourselves of our goody-two-shoes PC mental illness and do what needs to be done.
Murtha doesn’t want to understand that on of the government’s first obligation is to defend the country; spending should follow the priority of those obligations.
This might be necessary as the ‘bama and the Democrat controlled congress are siphoning off defense funds for other projects, like a Kennedy memorial. This will, of course, increase the need for more memorials for our troops. It’s all about hope and change.
This slug (murtha), like all other pols, just wants the ability to funnel funds to his buddies and skim off the top.
The only thing they want accountability for is war funds, When they start demanding the socialist programs and pork barrel thievery be accounted for someone may take them seriously...
Scumbags!
FU FAT JACK and all the degenerate parasites you rode in on!
“We have the same thing here. We are not paying for the godd—n war,” Murtha said.
Murtha's language and actions reflect what is truly in his heart.
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So he can divert more funds to his district.
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