12/8/09

Excellent Idea

Why has this taken 8 years?

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) introduced a war bonds bill today. The bill would authorize the U.S. Treasury to start selling war bonds to help fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think this is a good first step at becoming more fiscally sound. It's something that should have been done on Sept. 12, 2001. Morally, we can't morally fight endless war with supplementary spending appropriations. Since war bonds will be voluntary, we should also implement a war tax to help finance the wars. Just like we did in WWII, a war we achieved victory in half the time we've already spent in Afghanistan.