The cost of freedom is always high.

Most of the republican candidates in the race today are in favor of maintaining the war in Iraq. One of them even said that he’d keep it going for 100 years if necessary!

Now, I once heard that The War is costing us about $100,000,000,000 ($100 billion) per year. In sheer morbid curiosity, I was wondering how much that would end up costing us after 100 years. So I fired up Numbers and ran a quick, very simple calculation. Using an inflation rate of 3%, 100 years of war with Iraq would cost us…

$60,728,773,269,521

That’s 60 trillion dollars.

Please correct my math. I was wondering, maybe you can explain this to me… how would we come up with $60 trillion and still lower taxes?