@article{1479654,
      recid = {1479654},
      author = {Goldstein, Joshua S., },
      title = {The Real Price of War : How You Pay for the War on Terror  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Are Americans in denial about the costs of the War on  Terror? In The Real Price of War, Joshua S. Goldstein  argues that we need to face up to what the war costs the  average American-both in taxes and in changes to our way of  life. Goldstein contends that in order to protect the  United States from future attacks, we must fight-and  win-the War on Terror. Yet even as President Bush campaigns  on promises of national security, his administration is  cutting taxes and increasing deficit spending, resulting in  too little money to eradicate terrorism and a crippling  burden of national debt for future generations to pay.The  Real Price of War breaks down billion-dollar government  expenditures into the prices individual Americans are  paying through their taxes. Goldstein estimates that the  average American household currently pays $500 each month  to finance war. Beyond the dollars and cents that finance  military operations and increased security within the U.S.,  the War on Terror also costs America in less tangible ways,  including lost lives, reduced revenue from international  travelers, and budget pressures on local governments. The  longer the war continues, the greater these costs. In order  to win the war faster, Goldstein argues for an increase in  war funding, at a cost of about $100 per household per  month, to better fund military spending, homeland security,  and foreign aid and diplomacy.Americans have been told that  the War on Terror is a war without sacrifice. But as  Goldstein emphatically states: "These truths should be  self-evident: The nation is at war. The war is expensive.  Someone has to pay for it."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479654},
}