From the Washington Post:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) said yesterday that Congress should consider a “war-on-terrorism tax,” reducing the need for lawmakers to cut domestic programs to pay for security spending.
Lieberman said the proposed increase in the Pentagon’s budget for next fiscal year will squeeze funding for critical domestic programs.
“When you put together the [Pentagon] budget and the Homeland Security budgets, we need to ask people to help us in a way that they know when they pay more it will go for their security,” he said at a Budget Committee hearing.
In other tax news, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), in an effort to “strengthen the link between the taxes we pay and the politicians we elect,” has sponsored a bill to change the deadline for filing federal income taxes from April 15 to the first Monday in November–the day before Election Day. I imagine most Americans would find considerable consolation in knowing their tax dollars were going directly to fund national security programs, and pushing back the filing deadline to the day before election day…well that just makes good sense.
