Via Atrios comes this silliness involving Ben Nelson and...you guessed it...Joe F'ckin Lieberman.
In lieu of a "war tax" to pay for a troop increase in Afghanistan, Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (NE) is proposing war bonds.War tax, unpatriotic and evil facism. War bonds, patriotic and necessary to continue Americans giving infrastructure to everyone but Americans.
"We didn't have a war tax in the second World War," Nelson said, and instead the government sold Americans bonds."People invested in their country, in that fashion [and] made a lot of sense back then. I don't know why it might not make sense today, certainly in lieu of jumping to tax."
The idea has the support of fellow moderate Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT).
"I think that's a great idea," he said, "But I think we shouldn't shrink from a war tax in which everybody is asked to contribute a little bit to this effort."
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