Iraq and Afghanistan: Crossing the $1 Trillion Mark

NPP Pressroom

Kansas City Info Zine
Staff
06/03/2010

Taxpayers in Missouri will pay $11.4 billion and Taxpayers in Kansas will pay $5.9 billion for Total Defense Spending in FY2011. Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Jo Comerford ( jo@nationalpriorities.org ) is executive director of the National Priorities Project, which analyzes budget choices. She said today: "Over the weekend, the National Priorities Project 'Cost of War' counter -- designed to count the total money appropriated for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- passed the $1 trillion mark. "Taxpayers in Natick, Massachusetts have paid $206.9 million for total Iraq and Afghanistan war spending since 2001. For that amount, instead of implementing a proposed 4 percent cut for Natick's libraries in 2011, the town could double its total current library budget, and pay for it for 56 years. "To date $747.3 billion has been appropriated for the U.S. war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The pending supplemental making its way through Congress will add an estimated $37 billion to the current $136.8 billion total spending for the current fiscal year, ending September 30."