The Real Price of War : How You Pay for the War on Terror / Joshua S. Goldstein.
Goldstein, Joshua S., author.
2004
HV6432 .G64 2004
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Title The Real Price of War : How You Pay for the War on Terror / Joshua S. Goldstein.
Author Goldstein, Joshua S., author.
ISBN 9780814732687
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Call Number HV6432 .G64 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.931
Summary 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."
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Part I Government Spending
1 What Does War Cost?
2 Taxes
3 Budget Cuts
4 Debt
Part II Broader Economic Effects
5 Inflation
6 Business under Stress
7 Profit and Loss in Wartime
Part III Future Costs and How We Divide Them
8 The Price of Failure
9 A War without Sacrifice?
10 Sharing the Burden
11 Pay to Win
Afterword for the Paperback Edition
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

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