WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in both houses of Congress have introduced legislation to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by using a method that's a throwback to prior U.S. conflicts: war bonds.
Saying that it would "promote national shared sacrifice and responsibility," Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., introduced a bill Wednesday in the House of Representatives that would authorize the treasury secretary to issue and sell war bonds to Americans to fund the wars.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
What's The Sacrifice?
I have no idea how people voluntarily buying rate-earning war bonds is "shared sacrifice," but whatever makes the idiots who rule us happy...