already spends more on defense than any other country Not only did Congress not pass a tax to finance the efforts, it opted instead to pass the Bush tax cuts. has a history of wartime taxation to finance military conflicts - albeit uneven - that tradition was broken with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to tax historian Joe Thorndike. That alone could add trillions of dollars to the total tab. That includes some future cost obligations.īut even that higher figure leaves out some key expenses, such as the future costs of interest Americans will owe for the money borrowed to finance the war in Afghanistan. Of that, roughly $2 trillion is attributable to Afghanistan. For instance, Neta Crawford, a co-director of the Cost of Wars Project at Brown University, has estimated that total war spending in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2001 is approaching $5 trillion.
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