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The cost of 9/11

Today, Explained

Is the Status Quo Just a Throwing Money at the Pentagon?

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The way that the war has been paid for is predicted to rising levels of social inequality in this country as well. Compared to past wars, if you look t like world war too, there were war bondsdnd. In the korean war, it was entirely paid for through raising taxes. The combination, to day, of tax cuts and war borrowing, not just, you know, from foreign lenders, but also kind of institutions within the us. And wealthy individuals. That's predicted to even higher rates ofsocial inequality in the aftermath of the war. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery

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