[Peace-discuss] A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Brilliant!! We can ALL agree on this, right?? --Jenifer

--- On Tue, 10/19/10, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars
To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 11:45 AM

Instead of just saying that the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans
should be allowed to expire, let's say that the money saved should be
earmarked to the "veterans trust fund" proposed by Rep. Filner and
economists Joe Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes to pay the government's
obligation to veterans' care due to the current wars. The numbers are
roughly the same order of magnitude: a trillion saved over the next
ten years if the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans are allowed to
expire, between $589 billion and $934 billion estimated need,
depending on how long the wars last and how many troops are deployed.
Once the veterans' trust fund is fully funded, we can consider
restoring the Bush tax cuts on the richest Americans, thereby giving
America's politically influential super-rich a strong incentive to
push back against the permanent war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/robin-hood-taxes-to-pay-f_b_768171.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/19/121153/43

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/732

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern
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