As usual, the taxpayers will pay (one way or another).

According to this morning's news, the US government has added over
1,000,000 more employees since 9/11. To counteract the appearance of
the financial implications they are offloading some of their efforts to
private companies. The cost, of course, still comes out of the
taxpayers' pockets.

FW

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 01:51 AM, J Dunlop wrote:

> Russ,
>
> You posted a long and very reasoned discussion on taxes etc in the US.
> This is all very well but when your Government decides to engage in a
> war, all bets are off. They will pull in any and all money that they
> need by any means. I understand that the Budget deficit in the US is
> about $480 billion at the moment and the cost of keeping troops in
> Iraq is about $1 billion a week! Forecasts put the deficit at $1.4
> trillion in 10 years. Who is going to pay?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Dunlop

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