New proposed Gas tax

bgum wrote:
$643 Billion in 2013 for the military complex. Just think of all the positive things we could have done with that money. We got into this mess with weapons of mass destruction that were never found. 4500 lives lost for something that didn't exist and 24000 injured. My grandchildren will be paying for that lie when they die of old age. 19% for military and 6% for debt (which we wouldn't have if we cut military spending. That my friend is 1/4 of all our money. 25% of all the taxes I pay.

$643 Billion with a B

By the way I didn't know Port Charlotte was 5ft below sea level. We sure are not.

Or, maybe people could become a little more responsible for themselves and we could cut out some of the 75% that doesn't provide for the security of our country. Countries that have inadequate military and no means of protecting themselves have a long history of having very short existences. Yes, 4500 American lives were lost in the Iraq war, but 10s of millions were lost in WWII when the world turned a blind eye to a country with a fanatical leader who was rumored to be building up the destructive power of his military. Ask the Kurds if Saddam had any weapons of mass destruction, many of them will give you a first hand account of what it is like to be attacked by Non-existent Iraqi poison gas.