Make the Rich Pay?

The Occuppy Wall Street demand that the rich pay their "fair share". (I'll go over more about Occupy Wall Street in another blog post)

But we don't need more taxes.

We need the rich of OTHER NATIONS to PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE of their country's defense.

Here's what I got in the email from Downsize DC


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•The U.S. has around 865 overseas bases, NOT counting Iraq and Afghanistan

•They cost $102 billion per year, according to Miriam Pemberton of the Institute for Policy Studies http://tinyurl.com/aqq4zu

•The bulk of them are in wealthy countries such as Germany, South Korea, and Japan that are capable of defending themselves

•But we also have no business stationing troops to help defend the wealthy, corrupt dictators of impoverished countries

•Bringing our troops home will force wealthy nations, and dictators, to pay the full cost of their own defense

The savings to the U.S. could well be over $1 trillion over ten years, more money than "taxing the rich" would raise. And, bringing the troops home will be in our national interest...

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I'm all for paying for paying for the defense of this country! I'm all sending troops to hunt down Al Quaida, who have declared war on the USA!
 
But it's also time for other countries to pay more of their fair share of their own military defense, INSTEAD OF FREE-LOADING off of USA TAXPAYERS!
 
It's time for the rich folks of Japan, South Korea, Germany, and other nations to PAY FOR THEIR OWN DEFENSE, instead of free-loading off of US taxpayers?