War surtax could bridge partisan divide In this time of devastating financial deficits, a viable saving of face (and country) for both sides might be the immediate imposition of a temporary and long-overdue war tax, a surtax of 0.2 to 0.3 percent on all net personal and corporate income. This would expire automatically, perhaps some two years after formal cessation of hostilities.
Recall that the vast expense of the Defense Department, contributing greatly but necessarily to the deficit in this decade of combat operations, has not been ameliorated by any special cost sharing by the public. The burden of war has been borne, financially as well as personally, by the all-voluntary military and their families.
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