Big Spender
15 February 2008
Editor, New York Post
Dear Editor:
Rob Perry asserts that "common sense" dictates that Uncle Sam's military budget in recent years has been "inadequate" (Letters, February 14). Mr. Perry should rely less on his common sense and more on the data. As reported last week in the Los Angeles Times by Mercatus Center scholar Veronique de Rugy, George W. Bush "has given us the biggest defense budget since World War II - and that's regularly budgeted defense spending, not counting funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."*
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
* http://www.mercatus.org/Publications/pubID.4466,cfilter.0/pub_detail.asp
Editor, New York Post
Dear Editor:
Rob Perry asserts that "common sense" dictates that Uncle Sam's military budget in recent years has been "inadequate" (Letters, February 14). Mr. Perry should rely less on his common sense and more on the data. As reported last week in the Los Angeles Times by Mercatus Center scholar Veronique de Rugy, George W. Bush "has given us the biggest defense budget since World War II - and that's regularly budgeted defense spending, not counting funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."*
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
* http://www.mercatus.org/Publications/pubID.4466,cfilter.0/pub_detail.asp
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday July 4, 2008 at 9:03am