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Originally Posted by pghquest
Per this chart,
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfa....cfm?Docid=200
yearly +/- is
2000 - $236.2 Billion SURPLUS
2001 - $125.2 Billion SURPLUS
2002 - $151.3 Billion DEFICIT
2003 - $352.8 Billion DEFICIT
2004 - $374.8 Billion DEFICIT
2005 - $279.1 Billion DEFICIT
2006 - $210.0 Billion DEFICIT
$1Trillion deficit not $1.75Trillion.. (not that $1Trillion is chump change).
2007 Shows an expected deficit of $202.2 Billion, Per this graph http://jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq%20Economic%20Cost%20Report/chart4.pdf (broken link) we're spending more then $225 Billion this year for just the war and infrastructure.. Which means that we should have a surplus of $23.8Billion, not a deficit this year. (I gave a pass at the last 3 expenses on that page because they are future expenses, but if I added them in, it would show a surplus of $83.8Billion).
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I looked at current, not constant. But if you constant dollars, including the 2007 estimate (as we are in mid December), its 1.57 trillion. And I have a feeling that OMB estimate does not include the accurate costs of the Iraq war in 2007. Bottom line though is this, the Iraq War has cost us an insane amount of money. But even if we hadn't decided to waste so many resources there, we'd still be in a deep deficit.
There's no way around that.