Ben Nelson Floats Paying for Afghanistan War with War Bonds

By GottaLaff

Buy bonds! With money you don't have! Even though it's for a war that has waning support! At best!

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) today suggested the idea of selling war bonds to pay for sending troops to Afghanistan, reports CBS News Capitol Hill Producer John Nolen.

"Some people jumped right out and said you need a war tax, and I said wow, we didn't have a war tax in the Second World War," Nelson said. "The fact that we had bonds, war bonds, and people invested in their country in that fashion made a lot of sense back then. I don't know why it might not make sense today, certainly in lieu of jumping to tax."

Because World War II was "the good war" and the Afghan War is the sucky one? But his heart was in the right place, right?