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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 227: Cancel the Politics Topic: 250 B8ers will Die
HeroDelTiempo17 06/24/19 3:07:40 PM #46:	Well yeah. The point is to force declarations of war to also require a widely unpopular tax to force the public (and therefore, their representatives benefitting from it) to think more critically about supporting war and warmongering policies. There's other criticisms, like how our military spending is already out of control and could pay more for benefits, but at the very least the "war tax" doesn't actually seem to go to traditional military spending. --- DPOblivion was far more determined than me. <cite>HeroDelTiempo17 posted [p:923782285] in Politics C... [t:77811053]...</cite> <quote>Well yeah. The point is to force declarations of war to also require a widely unpopular tax to force the public (and therefore, their representatives benefitting from it) to think more critically about supporting war and warmongering policies. There's other criticisms, like how our military spending is already out of control and could pay more for benefits, but at the very least the "war tax" doesn't actually seem to go to traditional military spending. --- DPOblivion was far more determined than me.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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