The United States seems to be involved perpetually in war after war after war, all around the world, year after year after year. Perhaps there are good reasons for the American involvement in those wars, perhaps not. What has to be recognized, though, is that the wars of today do not directly impact in any real way or form, most American citizens. That is to say, the United States has no conscription, it has no curfew so imposed, in regards to its present day wars, and it does not have rationing either, because of those wars. This thus signifies that because these wars are being fought overseas, those that are not part of that struggle, because they are not the actual soldiers on the field, typically don’t overly concern themselves about war or its effect, or even necessarily the cost of that war, financially as well as ethically.
In consideration, that this nation runs massive yearly federal deficits and apparently has no intention of this ever ending in the foreseeable future, in which, the national defense budget is now approaching an astonishing one trillion dollars on an annual basis, there is a need then, for those that are the people of these United States, to pay a war tax, in order to do their good part to help finance these wars, which, in theory, the American people, would seem to support, since the politicians that are elected are either the actuators or the enablers of these wars.
The war tax, should be something reasonable, something akin to the current Medicare tax, which is currently pegged at 1.45% per employee, and a matching 1.45% for the employer. Additionally, the war tax should also apply to those that have yearly capital gains of $40,000 and above, at that same 1.45% rate. This would thus take the American public, and make them to have a vested interest in not only the monies so being allocated from their pockets to our various war efforts, but also to make them to realize that perhaps they should consider, when it comes to politics and budgets, that they are the ones that are essentially made to pay the piper, for those wars and budgets, directly or indirectly.
After all, if you really want to know how somebody feels about something, make their involvement be one in which it makes a difference to their pocketbook or to their livelihood or even to their life. Indeed, if conscription was mandated for these foreign wars, and rationing and curfews were so imposed, the American public, would not be so eager to see Americans participate in these wars. Yet, because current Americans are not being directly taxed for those wars, leaving such for future unborn generations to have to deal with, that seems to be not only unfair, but also not right. This proposed war tax should be imposed upon the American taxpayer as soon as possible, in which, perhaps, there will be some hew and cry, or perhaps not. In any event, a war tax, would be fair price to pay, for those that want war, but desire not to personally fight in such.