Financing War

• Income Tax
• Paying through appropriations from general fund
• Legislation for designated tax
• Reparations
• War Bonds

A History Lesson

• War on Terror 2001 to present
• $662 billion
• 4.2 per cent of GDP
• Kosovo 1999
• Bosnian War 1995
• Occupation of Haiti 1994 to Present
• Somalia Intervention 1992-present
• Desert Storm 1991
• $88 billion
• Grenada Invasion 1983
• Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979 – 1980
• Dominican Intervention 1965-1966
• Laotian Civil War 1960-1975
• Vietnam War 1964-1973
• $518bn
• 9.4 per cent of GDP
• Intervention in Lebanon 1958
• Korean War 1950-1953
• $456bn
• 12.2 per cent of GDP
• World War II 1941-1945
• $360 billion
• 40 per cent of GDP

Creating Unity with in the Country

Promotion of War Bonds

Propaganda

Hollywood

Soldiers

Celebrities

Cartoons