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According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion dollars by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per U.S. citizen.
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So $2.4 trillion over 10 years, 240 billion a year or 657 million a day and that includes interest.
Welfare spending if it should remain the same (fat chance) would come to $9trillion over the same period of time WITHOUT INTEREST included.
So before we again go into the 'war' zone let's realize we spend 5 times as much on welfare programs.