December 02, 2009 MSNBC
From The Hill--Lieberman: Congress should consider war tax:
Congress should consider a wartime surtax to fund a troop surge in Afghanistan, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Wednesday.
Lieberman, a centrist who allies himself with Democrats but who often stakes out hawkish stances on defense issues, said lawmakers should examine a surtax.
"Generally speaking, if you feel that a war is worth fighting...then you've got to be willing to pay for it," Lieberman said during an appearance on MSNBC. "I wouldn't hold it up because of a failure to pay for it, but, to me, we have to be open to adopting some kind of taxes to pay for the additional expenditures for the effort the president announced last night in Afghanistan."
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Lieberman said that any war surtax should be sensitive to the current economic difficulties facing the U.S., suggesting that a surtax may go into effect in the future, once the brunt of the recession has passed.
"The one caveat here...is when such taxes would go into effect," he explained. "We're obviously working our way slowly, anxiously out of a very deep recession."
