<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Brilliant!! We can ALL agree on this, right??<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 10/19/10, Robert Naiman <i><naiman.uiuc@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars<br>To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 11:45 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Instead of just saying that the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans<br>should be allowed to expire, let's say that the money saved should be<br>earmarked to the "veterans trust fund" proposed by Rep. Filner and<br>economists Joe Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes to pay the government's<br>obligation to veterans' care due to the current wars. The
numbers are<br>roughly the same order of magnitude: a trillion saved over the next<br>ten years if the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans are allowed to<br>expire, between $589 billion and $934 billion estimated need,<br>depending on how long the wars last and how many troops are deployed.<br>Once the veterans' trust fund is fully funded, we can consider<br>restoring the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans, thereby giving<br>America's politically influential super-rich a strong incentive to<br>push back against the permanent war.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/robin-hood-taxes-to-pay-f_b_768171.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/robin-hood-taxes-to-pay-f_b_768171.html</a><br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/19/121153/43" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/19/121153/43</a><br><br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/732"
target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/732</a><br><br>--<br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br>www.justforeignpolicy.org<br><a ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" href="/mc/compose?to=naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><br>Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern" target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table><br>