Thread: It's finally over

You pay for the military, not the war. That cost is relatively the same in war times as it is in peace times (it costs a lot to train soldiers and maintain a military.) Whether you experience a tax hike depends on how catastrophic the war is. If things go well and you make a profit, then you don't have to pay for it because it payed for itself. Think of it like a security system. You pay for a security system to be installed at your house and for the sake of this argument lets say you have to pay a certain amount every year for upkeep. You don't have to pay extra everytime the alarm goes off, that's just doing it's job. We pay money for the military to be ready to go to war at a moments notice, they don't need a fundraiser. Maybe the government could choose to increase the military's budget during a war, that could be a valid argument, except the military's budget has been growing at a fairly steady rate since WWII in both times of peace and war. So I am just saying that you would still be paying more or less the same amount of money to the military whether they were in Iraq or not. I keep hearing the argument of "that money should have gone to education," as if the military is reaching directly into the pockets of the education department. That money would have gone to the military no matter what, they just chose to do with it something that a lot people think was wasteful.