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To: TimF who wrote (39245)	12/3/2009 10:27:41 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Thorley Winston December 2, 2009 4:22 PM I think that the objections are pretty self-evident: 1) We don’t “need” a new tax to pay for the military operations in Afghanistan. Repeal the Obama-Pelosi-Reid “stimulus” bill and there’s plenty of money to pay for continuing military operations. Or repeal Tom Harkin’s farm bills. Or means-test Medicare and Social Security. If there’s a “sacrifice” to be made, let it be from the tax-eaters and not the tax-payers. 2) The only people naïve enough to believe that there will be an automatic sunset provision on the Obey Tax are the same fools who endorse a Carbon Tax thinking it would be coupled with a cut in income and/or payroll taxes. 3) The military is one of the few things that the federal government does which is expressly covered by the Constitution as opposed to most of what the federal government does which is little more than forcible wealth transference. To the extent that we even ought to have any form of federal taxation, the military is one of the few legitimate reasons for it. 4) As others have pointed out, it’s a transparent political gimmick put forth by opponents of the military operations in Afghanistan. If you care about the deficit, then you do your cause a disservice by allowing the political oxygen to be sucked up by people putting forth gimmicks especially when you know it’s a gimmick. meganmcardle.theatlantic.com