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Although the U.S. is trying to turn the page on two decades of war in the Middle East, American taxpayers can expect to pay for those conflicts for decades to come.The ultimate cost of the nation s engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq,
stanley cup on top of the incalculable personal toll on combatants and civilians, reflects a shift in how war has typically been financed. From the American Civil War through the Korean War, the U.S. government has mostly paid for its conflicts through taxes and war bonds. But in the post-September 11 era, U.S. military spending has
stanley cup been financed almost entirely through debt.Since the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government has spent $2.2 trillion to finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according tofiguresfrom Brown University s Costs of War Project. Yet that sum mdash; which amounts to roughly 10% of the the country s total gross domestic product mdash; only reflects upfront costs.
stanley cup Including the cost of interest on those wars will add an additional $2.1 trillion by 2030. And through 2050, the interest alone is forecast to top $6.5 trillion mdash; even if war spending had theoretically stopped in 2019, according to researchpublishedlast year from Heidi Peltier, director of the 20 Years of War Project at Boston University s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.Such borrowing leads to larger total costs because interest must be paid as long as the debt is owed. That pushes the true cost of Djqc Walmart to hike pay for 425,000, or nearly a third of its U.S. workforce
A massive pre-winter storm brought snow, sleet and freezing rain across a wide swath
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stanley cup y roads, immobilizing snowfalls and power losses to hundreds of thousands of people. Accidents on snow-covered interstates caused major delays, hundreds of flights were canceled and drivers in North Carolina and Virginia got stuck in snow or lost control on icy patches.Meanwhile, kids and the young at heart took advantage of the early winter snow with snowball fights, sledding and building snowmen.Police in North Carolina and Virginia said they responded to hundreds of snow-related traffic accidents as of Sunday afternoon, as cars, trucks and tractor-trailers all struggled with the snow and ice. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper strongly urged residents to stay off the roads Sunday, asking drivers not to put lives of first responders needlessly at risk. Cooper said emergency crews,
af1 including the National Guard, worked overnight to clear traffic accidents on major roadways. Stay put if you can, Cooper said. Wrap a few presents, decorate the tree, watch some football. A snow plow removes snow in Roanoke, Virginia, on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. AP Five members of a dive team searched the Neuse River in Kinston, North Carolina, for a missing truck driver Sunday after a tractor-trailer ran off a road and into the
