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To: tejek who wrote (283393)	4/7/2006 5:51:10 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

There shouldn't be any tax reduction when a country is fighting an expensive war. The war is not all that expensive, in terms of money spent by the government compared to our GDP. We spent more on the military under every president from FDR (at least starting with 1942) to the early Clinton years. You might argue that the money spent is far to much. You might argue that we aren't getting any positive return. You might argue that we shouldn't go to war because of the death and destruction that a war causes, but even if you assume all of those as being true it still doesn't make this "a very expensive war", in terms of government spending.