ca18guy

You got semi-right figures but your view on how this works is alittle ..... off. Yes the upper portion of the income brakets pay 83% of the FEDERAL taxes. But schools are mainly a state/locally funded place. Most school districts get ONLY 5-10% of their funding from the federal government, the rest is up to the state and local tax districts. Thats why most school funding problems are brought up on the local and state level, because thats where they get their funding. So the locals pay for the school, which is why if you live on the really nice side of town, you probably have a nicer school then the people in the inner-city (meanwhile you got the state trying to get all the schools on a level playing field)

Anyway, to the original post. Yes, it would be nice if the cost of the war went to schools, the homeless, starving children in timbucktoo, or even furry animals that just can't seem to stop dying. But it didn't, it went to the presidents idea of national security so live with it and vote him out in the next election (assuming your old enough) if you feel so strongly against it.