Also note that the above 1945 fed budget was 41.56% of the nominal GDP of the time ($173.52 billion).

So, yeah, if DoD was 90% of the federal budget, and the total budget was around $5.8 trillion ($14 trillion * .4156), I’d be in favor of massive war bond sales myself.

This stunt is yet another attempt by this administration to sneak yet another tax burden on the citizens of this country.

I agree with suggestions already made with respect to federal budget cuts. For starters.

No, $130 isn’t chicken feed either, but whining about $634 billion DoD budget while kicking total fed spending to nearly $4 trillion with a deficit of $1.7 trillion for 2009 alone, is farcical.

In fact, the above summary demonstrates that the proposed “war tax” would only raise $68 billion, which doesn’t even cover the proposed “contingency” (AKA war on Islamofascism) operations next year.

…And while you’re at it, ask Mary Landrieu about returning that $300 million bribe, if the Democrats are so darned worried about funding. Feh.

What we need is a snappy slogan like “buy a bullet for Tali-Baba” or “72 virgins need a man. Won’t you please give?” or “pay your tax to support our attacks”, followed up with some nice poster work a la the WWII bond posters. Give us all warm fuzzies.

For example, Walter Williams has a great article at:

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/11/25/a_minority_view_voluntarism_or_self-interest

There is a National Organ Transplant Act that prevents me, under Federal Law, from taking money or other compensation for my bone marrow or organs. Now I’m not a Constitutional scholar but I’m not finding anywhere in the document that my bone marrow crosses state lines, affects trade, or otherwise is anybody else’s darned business. Where in the heck did Congress determine they had the power to tell me what I could do with my marrow?

I’ll never forget the time the USDA decided I was a farmer. My wife bought some turkeys and chickens, and I rented 6 acres to a neighbor in return for some corn to feed them with. Suddenly, I met the qualifications of a farmer. My county agent, tired of sending me 200-page booklets with forms to fill out, finally filled them out for me and sent a copy that only required my signature. As a result, I was given the agricultural census along with the regular one, had to keep track of farm-related expenses versus my normal lifestyle expenses, and I received my first farm subsidy check.

$18. So, you know, Mom was finally able to afford that operation.

The USDA plants not one crop, nor does it harvest any grain. The USDE educates not one child. The DoE produces not a kilowatt of electricity. The Department of Labor produces not one job, and the Department of Health and Human Services cares for no patients.

Until we can get Congress to realize that not everything is under their care, and get a Supreme Court to so rule, we’re left with a nation run by lawyers spending other people’s money to buy favor and be re-elected.

Which, of course, means we’re pretty much screwed.

– Max