Americans should vote on decisions to start war, which INCLUDES a voter-approved tax increase to pay for the war. It If the choice is in the American people's hands from the get-go, then we will take responsiblity for the wars we wage as a nation and its huge price: money, security and lives.
Why is this important?
I, like many Americans have been frustrated by the many Americans who are proudly "pro-war" but don't want to increase taxes for any reason, ever. How else do we pay for war? By cutting programs at home? I for one, supported by many, do not believe it is fair for politicians to decide to go to war and then please their constituents by not raising the necessary revenue to pay for it. We are in large part in the economic mess we are in now because of a decade-plus-long-war which was all paid for from borrowed money and contributed greatly to the current fiscal defecit. I believe if the "pro-war" Americans were responsible for actually paying for war by their own decision to support it, we would have a whole lot less of it. This helps strengthen our economy, gives us ownership of our decisions as a nation, and not to mention brings more peace and prosperity to America.
