Posted on 08/10/2023 1:14:24 PM PDT by FarCenter
Congressionally approved aid for Ukraine has cost each U.S. household hundreds of dollars, Heritage Foundation budget expert Richard Stern says.
“The formal aid packages alone amount to a staggering $113 billion—roughly $900 per American household and almost 12 times the spending cuts promised by House leadership in the annual spending bills,” Stern, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, said in an email to The Daily Signal, Heritage’s news outlet.
“As with all new federal spending,” Stern added, “this $113 billion spending spree was added to our national debt and will cost more than $300 in interest costs per household over the decade. Of course, we’ve given more aid than that, but haven’t paid the bill on it yet.”
Congress already has greenlighted over $113 billion in “aid and military assistance to support the Ukrainian government and allied nations” since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
“As the war in Ukraine becomes a prolonged conflict, Americans are rightly growing skeptical of sending more taxpayer dollars and equipment from our depleted armory,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts told The Daily Signal in a written statement.
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whatever it takes to stop the soviet expansion
I want a refund
Screw Libtardism and their neocon buddies
Screw their fake righteousness while they proliferate the entire world with cluster bombs.
Our government causes more trouble than every other country put together
It’s true somebody has to say it
A drop in the bucket compared to the “migrant” invasion.
The DC oligarchs must love you. $900 per family per year to stop an entity Ronald Reagan killed 35 years ago. Yes sir, that’s fiscal accountability.
I want my 900 bucks spent on torpedoes to finish off Ivan’s Black Sea fleet. They are the ones keeping Uke grain from hungry folks.
$900 per family to stop the reassembly of what Reagan defeated 35 years ago
A bargain compared to maintaining defense levels at current levels when we could end Russia and reduce spending as they would no longer be needed.
Meanwhile, the US spends $21,035.00 per American household every year on entitlements.
A slap in the face to Abraham Lincoln as Russia who provided meaningful support years ago. ago.
“whatever it takes to stop the soviet expansion”
Buy yourself a ticket and go play. You buy yourself a ticket. There are no Soviets running Russia dude. That’s the con job the Deep state sells.
If you care so much, feel free to pay my $900 next time the hat gets passed around.
“ $900 per family to stop the reassembly of what Reagan defeated 35 years ago”
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I guess you’re forgetting that Russia has moved beyond communism. Of course the Neocon and “other-peoples’-money” crew want us to forget that. Certain segments of our nation lose their ability to think rationally when they hear the chant of ‘RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA’ in their ears.
Give me reparations. Now.
yes, they moved beyond it, but Putin want so drag them back to it. And this invasion is part of that process.
Debt servicing costs for this calendar year will be $860 billion, about half of what is collected in income taxes. We are headed over a cliff.
Biden will post a $2 trillion budget deficit this calendar year. We are the world’s biggest debtor nation.
And we have a looming $100 trillion unfunded liability in the form of Medicare and Social Security. The Medicare Trust Fund is exhausted in 2028 and the SSTF in 2034.
My FRiend - WE are the globalist (neo) Marxists now.
Who is going to stop our woke DC deep-state?
If the U.S. wants to fund the “Ukraine War”; let the money be taken from EBT’s, Food Stamps, and Subsidized Housing payments......we’ll see how THOSE “Taxpayers” handle THAT!
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