Instead of raising taxes on the wealthy, Bush is paying for the Iraq war by taking from the sick, poor, and elderly.

Mr Bush's $2.9 trillion (£1.5 trillion) budget, sent to Congress yesterday, includes $100bn extra for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for this year, on top of $70bn already allocated by Congress and $141.7bn next year. He is planning an 11.3% increase for the Pentagon.

Spending on the Iraq war is destined to top the total cost of the 13-year war in Vietnam.
The huge rise in military spending is paid for by a squeeze on domestic programmes, including $66bn in cuts over five years to Medicare, the healthcare scheme for the elderly, and $12bn from the Medicaid healthcare scheme for the poor.

Mr Bush said: "Today we submit a budget to the United States Congress that shows we can balance the budget in five years without raising taxes ... Our priority is to protect the American people. And our priority is to make sure our troops have what it takes to do their jobs."

Taxes, taxes, taxes.

This is the club that the Republicans use to convince Americans to let them run our country.

They tell us that they can do the job without raising any Americans taxes. This is a straw man argument.

If taxes were to be raised, they would not make a noticeable difference in the take home pay of the average American. They would make a noticeable difference in the income of the richest people in our country, but it would certainly not cause them any hardship. They could easily afford the hike in taxes, they just don't want to be asked to pay it.

So instead the cost of the war is taken directly from the people who are least able to afford it. The poor will have less access to medical assistance. The elderly will find more of their medical costs coming out of their own, nearly empty pockets. And the sick will find themselves unable to afford the medicines to make them well.

But of course the good news is that the wealthy of us will be able to waste more of their money on ridiculous overpriced trinkets instead of helping to support a war started by their President.

So how worried about taxes are you now?

Don't let them fool you with this shit again!