Posted by Malou Innocent on June 22, 2010
By Malou Innocent
The New York Times reports that congressional investigators have found mounting evidence that “American taxpayers have inadvertently created a network of warlords across Afghanistan who are making millions of dollars escorting NATO convoys and operating outside the control of either the Afghan government or the American and NATO militaries.”
The Financial Times broke this story back [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, financial times, Foreign Policy and National Security, New York Times, taxpayers, warlords | 
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Posted by Christopher Preble on June 3, 2010
By Christopher Preble
Over at National Journal’s National Security Experts blog, this week’s question revolves around the health of the U.S. economy, and its relationship to U.S. power.
The editors ask:
How serious a threat is the mounting debt to the nation’s standing as the world’s only superpower? Can the U.S. continue to spend more than all other countries combined on its [...]
Categories: Economy, National Security, Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: benefits, collapse, crisis, debt levels, eastern europe, Foreign Policy and National Security, General, Health, Welfare & Entitlements, insolvency, jagadeesh gokhale, military force, military spending, national security strategy, pension, pensioners, social security, social security system, spending, Taxes, taxpayers, terrorist | No Comments »
Posted by David Boaz on June 2, 2010
By David Boaz
What is it with modern American liberals and taxes? Apparently they don’t just see taxes as a necessary evil, they actually like ‘em; they think, as Gail Collins puts it in the New York Times, that in a better world “little kids would dream of growing up to be really big taxpayers.” But you really see [...]
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