Reply #24: Not enough $ for war in Iraq to continue and keep SS/Medicare

[EVDebs]

Play it straight you foolish Dems ! Get out in front of these wastrel R's and show these 'inconvenient truths'

Cost of war in Iraq (could go $1 TRILLION to $2 TRILLION), currently at $364 billion
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11880954/

How Bushco is paying for war right now with 'globalization tax' a.k.a. capital repatriations of around $317 billion

ASA Scorecard on Capital Repatriation, shows $217 billion repatriated with $100 billion to come
http://www.americanshareholders.com/blog/2006/03/bna-tax-report-on-repatriation.php

...and at the same time Corporations aren't paying their fair share of taxes domestically while cutting pensions and healthcare

""Corporate income taxes in fiscal 2003 accounted for 7.4% of all federal tax receipts, down from a post-war peak of 32% in 1952. With one exception (1983), last year’s percentage is the lowest recorded since data was first published in 1934. Even so, tax breaks for corporations (and their investors, particularly large ones) were a major part of the Administration’s 2002 and 2003 initiatives. If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.""

Warren Buffett Urges higher corporate taxes
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0306-01.htm

BTW, this directly contradicts the ASA report (page 6) data. Maybe Buffett telling the truth while corporate lying continues led him to speak out, huh ? In any event...Hit them with these facts and let the public in on the secret M$M, hmmmm ?