The price of war
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- October
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Whatever your position on the Iraq War, you might want to know how much it is costing you.
“The National Priorities Project”:http://www.nationalpriorities.org keeps track of how much is being spent.
So far, the figure is $456 billion. For the 2008 fiscal year, Congress has requested nearly $200 billion in war-related spending. If the request is approved, the National Priorities Project estimates that the total cost would rise to $611 billion.
What’s really interesting is that the group breaks taxpayer costs down by state: $41 billion so far for New York. And by counties: $2.9 billion for Westchester and $344 million for Putnam. And by cities, towns and villages.
Here are some other ways it calculates the cost:
 $4,100 for every American household;
 $1,500 for every American;
 $3,400 for every taxpayer;
 $11 million per hour and;
 $275 million per day.
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on Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 11:34 am by Noreen O'Donnell.
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