Tax America to save Europe from itself

The Heritage Foundation finds The 2011 Defense Budget: Inadequate and Full of Inconsistencies

This approach reveals that building a force of the size and composition recommended in this paper will require increasing the core defense budget from the current 3.8 percent of GDP to 4 percent. This means that the FY 2015 core defense budget, the last year of the current budget projection, will be $767.6 billion, compared to the Administration's recommendation of $648.2 billion.

$120 billion dollars is a lot of money. Why do we need to raise taxes to cover this?

Area #2: An inability to prevent a hostile power from dominating Europe.

Huh? The Russians are in no shape to invade. What is this threat to Europe that requires American troops to defend against?

Politically, some voices in the EU are calling for a unified Europe to serve as a counterweight to the U.S. in global affairs. In this context, the EU could emerge as the dominant power in a Europe that is hostile to the United States.

So we need to tax Americans to maintain troops in Europe to keep Europe from mutating into a hostile power? So all of the democratic institutions that so many American service members died to ensure in Europe are useless? Really?

-HJC