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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

CHRIS COONS, DELAWARE SENATOR PROPOSES SURTAX FOR WAR AGAINST ISIS~BERNIE SANDERS PARTNERS WITH COONS

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CHRIS COONS, DELAWARE SENATOR PROPOSES SURTAX FOR WAR AGAINST ISIS
Published on Dec 30, 2015
As if funding them, training them, "accidentally" dropping weapons in their territory, and spending $5 billion taxpayer funds ineffectively wasn't enough, elected officials want to squeeze even more of your hard earned money for the neverending war on terror. Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, went on the Morning Joe Show to call for a “small surtax” to pay for the war against the Islamic State.
SEE: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/29/chris-coons-proposes-war-surtax-to-fund-fight-agai/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Sen. Chris Coons said Tuesday that he believes a war surtax is a viable solution to funding the fight against the Islamic State terror group.
The Delaware Democrat argued on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the United States “charged” into war with Iraq and Afghanistan with “no serious thought” on how to pay for it.
 “As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and Appropriations Committee, I’m trying to raise my hand and saying we’re not doing our job in Congress,” Mr. Coons said, according to a press release. “President Obama sent us an AUMF, that’s Washington-speak for a request for a declaration of war against ISIS, all the way back in February, and we have not taken it up, debated it and passed it. We owe that to our veterans and to those serving in the conflict against ISIS but we also need to stand up and say: ‘How are we going to pay for it?’”
The senator penned an op-ed Sunday for the Philadelphia Inquirer proposing a temporary war surtax that would include an exemption for U.S. troops and their families. He said he introduced a federal budget amendment in March that would impose a temporary surtax, and he plans to explore the option again when the Senate reconvenes in 2016.
“There are a whole lot of outrageous statements being made, very aggressive, very bellicose statements being made by Republican Presidential candidates, and by my colleagues in the Senate about how much they would do, how aggressive they would be,” he said Tuesday. “I think if they also had to vote to fund the cost of the wars they’re threatening to expand, it would create somewhat of a speed bump. It would force us to debate not just the strategy of the war against ISIS, which we need to more seriously contemplate, but it would also force us to look at the cost – short term and long term – of the conflict we are already well into against ISIS.”
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Senator Coons: "New Revenue Streams"
"We cannot write another blank check for war"
( Wants to Tax More So He Can Fund Planned Parenthood Instead)
Published on Mar 26, 2015
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U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) calls up his budget amendment insisting that Congress find a way to pay for the war against ISIS in a speech on the Senate floor on March 25, 2015.

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Coons, Sanders propose temporary surtax to pay for war with ISIS

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
March 26, 2015

Amendment will be voted on this afternoon

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) proposed a temporary surtax to pay for American military operations against ISIS.  The proposal, offered as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2016 federal budget currently under consideration by the Senate, is backed by Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Ranking Member on the Senate Budget Committee.  Under the Coons-Sanders proposal, the temporary surtax would be discontinued once relevant military operations have concluded. 

The amendment will be voted on this afternoon.
“Through each of our nation's armed conflicts, new revenue streams not only provided the resources our military needed, they reminded the American people that our country was at war and we all needed to contribute to the effort,” Senator Coons said on the Senate floor last night.  “But after 14 years and two wars that have cost our nation trillions of dollars, I fear we have forgotten this important lesson from our history. We cannot write another blank check for a war.”
“The Republican Party has to end their hypocrisy with regard to deficits and the national debt,” said Senator Sanders.  “They are going to have to be honest with the American people.  Wars are enormously expensive, not only in terms of human life and suffering, but in terms of the budget.  If the Republicans want another war in the Mideast, they are going to have to tell the American people how much it will cost them and how it will be paid for.”
Since last year, Senator Coons has led efforts to ensure the U.S. does not, once again, begin open-ended military operations that could stretch on for years without considering potential fiscal impacts.  Earlier this month, Senator Coons pressed top military officials, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, on the Obama Administration’s position on paying for combat operations against ISIS.



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