Andrew Sullivan: It’s been a remarkable aspect of the foreign policy “debate” over the last month that I haven’t heard a single leading Republican express misgivings about a new Iraq war’s impact on fiscal policy. And yet, for a few years now, we have been subjected to endless drama about the mounting debt when it comes to anything the government wants to do. Cost was one (ludicrous) reason to oppose Obamacare;
Andrew is bitching about the $15 billion a year we will spend shooting Islamics. He backs up his rhetoric by say the 1.5% of GDP costs for Obamacare, now arriving at Treasury is nothing. That cost is about $170 billion this year, assuming middle class taxpayers cover about $80 billion up front.
I am all for paying the costs of the Islamic shootout, and I am all in favor of California covering the Obamacare costs of all California citizens even if we are not all citizens of the Swamp. But to compare a $170 billion dollar hit on the American middle class with a $15 billion shooting spree is ridiculous.
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