Should we raise taxes to pay for the war?

So far the war has been funded through deficit spending. If the war cost Americans real money from the beginning would there be as much support? So far the only people who have had to sacrifice has been soldiers and their families.

Two Democrats...

proposed a surtax of 2-15% above your normal income taxes to fund the war. Is this a good idea? If not how should we fund the war?

Given the fiscal track record of the government...raising taxes to pay for something isn't a good idea. It's an excuse to keep pushing more people into poverty.

how should we fund the war

By denying more people services, like health care for children. Or senior citizens their social security checks. Or the very wealthy their credits for IRA 401K.

Really, if people had to make their own evil choice...maybe, just maybe, they'd stop think that invading a sovereign country participating in the vicious slaughter of countless thousands isn't a good idea.

Although Canada is only a tenth as populous as the U.S., tax increases of any kind is just another excuse to pad the pockets of the rich. For me taxes are brutal every year and yet the government sees an opportunity for more and they toss it on the backs of the middleman. The price of war is only paid by the sacrifices of those it tears away from us.
The answer is NOOO!!!

Given past history, no reason is needed ever to raise taxes - wonder if the American people will ever say...enough.

Update 10/3/07

The Democratic proposal for an Iraq tax lasted about four hours. That's roughly the amount of time from when House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) gave life to the idea with his endorsement to when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) strangled it.
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The war is costing the American people real money via inflation tax. Gasoline in excess of $3.00 per gallon is its indicator. The U.S. gov't could never pay for these wars via Gov't Bonds alone. THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS PRIVATELY OWNED. It has the monopoly on the creation of currency in the U.S. This is unconstitutional. They are robbing us blind and keeping us insolvent purposefully.

Go to http://www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm and read what Edward Griffin has to say. Research the work of Eustace Mullins for further corroboration. Look up INFLATION TAX.

As long as there are central banks operating, we'll have needless wars. Count on it.

NO. We need to get our troops out of there rather than raise taxes. We've already lost too many men and women over in the middle east. We have to get out of there and drop a bomb.