War on Iraq costs San Franciscans $279 Million Dollars

The Cost of War with Iraq for Selected Cities

The figures below are estimates of the total of how much the taxpayers of each city will pay out of their federal income taxes on the war with Iraq.

Arizona Tempe $43,800,000 California Grass Valley $2,100,000 Hayward $43,300,000 Long Beach $104,400,000 Los Angeles $834,800,000 Mendocino County $20,600,000 Nevada City $780,000 Nevada County $27,400,000 Ojai $47,400,000 Palo Alto $39,000,000 Pasadena $40,600,000 Plumas County $5,400,000 San Francisco $279,200,000 San Jose $378,700,000 Santa Cruz $19,200,000 Santa Monica $36,100,000 Thousand Oaks $56,900,000 Ukiah $3,500,000 Ventura County $278,100,000 Willits $1,000,000 Colorado Boulder $37,800,000 Colorado Springs $109,800,000 Denver $152,000,000 Lyons $530,000 Connecticut Avon $14,300,000 Bridgeport $45,600,000 Danbury $38,300,000 Durham $4,500,000 Enfield $22,600,000 Farmington $16,700,000 Glastonbury $25,000,000 Granby $7,700,000 Greenwich $61,900,000 Groton $3,600,000 Hartford $27,200,000 Manchester $26,600,000 Middletown $21,700,000 New Britain $24,300,000 New Hartford $3,900,000 New Haven $36,700,000 New London $8,300,000 New London County $128,100,000 New Milford $17,000,000 Norfolk $900,000 Norwalk $46,700,000 Old Saybrook $6,200,000 Stamford $67,100,000 Stonington $9,400,000 Torrington $15,800,000 Watertown $12,300,000 Wethersfield $14,800,000 West Hartford $40,900,000 Westport $32,500,000 Winchester $5,100,000 Florida Citrus County $28,600,000 Hernando County $32,300,000 Lake County $59,100,000 Leon County $83,600,000 Pasco $89,900,000 Sumter $13,000,000 Tallahassee $49,000,000 Georgia Atlanta $80,500,000 Hawaii Hilo $7,900,000 Illinois Chicago $775,200,000 Elgin $34,600,000 Galesburg $8,800,000 Oak Park $26,900,000 Indiana Gary $16,700,000 South Bend $21,200,000 Iowa Decorah $1,800,000 Des Moines $42,000,000 Mt. Vernon $910,000 Kansas Overland Park $57,800,000 Maine Portland $14,500,000 Maryland Baltimore $122,500,000 Howard County $112,400,000 Montgomery County $389,700,000 Massachusetts For a listing of cities in MA, click HERE. Michigan Ann Arbor $45,100,000 Berkley $5,800,000 Bloomfield Township $29,500,000 Clawson $4,600,000 Detroit $178,800,000 Kalamazoo $18,200,000 Lake Orion $1,100,000 Lansing $27,300,000 Livonia $40,600,000 Monroe $6,300,000 Mount Pleasant $6,300,000 Oak Park $9,100,000 Plymouth $3,800,000 Pontiac $13,400,000 Redford $16,200,000 Rochester Hills $34,300,000 Southfield $28,100,000 Traverse City $3,800,000 Troy $41,400,000 Waterford $26,200,000 Minnesota St. Cloud $15,900,000 St. Paul $75,000,000 Missouri Columbia $23,100,000 St. Louis $59,400,000 Montana Butte $5,600,000 Helena $5,400,000 Nebraska Lincoln $59,400,000 Nevada Las Vegas $154,000,000 New Jersey Jersey City $65,600,000 New Mexico Albuquerque $92,500,000 Santa Fe $13,600,000 Taos $700,000 New York Buffalo $61,900,000 Catham $540,000 Esopus $3,500,000 Nassau County $749,400,000 New York City $2,379,300,000 Rockland County $156,200,000 Suffolk County $707,500,000 Tomkins County $35,400,000 Westchester County $509,900,000 Ohio Akron $44,300,000 Cleveland $75,100,000 Dayton $30,100,000 Portsmouth $3,400,000 Scioto County $14,200,000 Oklahoma Oklahoma City $97,100,000 Tulsa $78,600,000 Oregon Multnomah County $164,200,000 Portland $129,400,000 Salem $30,900,000 Pennsylvania Bucks County $235,600,000 Chester County $191,300,000 Erie $21,700,000 Philadelphia $322,400,000 Pittsburgh $74,500,000 Rhode Island Barrington $7,100,000 Bristol $6,100,000 Bristol County $15,900,000 Newport $7,100,000 Providence $27,800,000 Warren $3,000,000 South Dakota Sioux Falls $30,900,000 Tennessee Knoxville $37,500,000 Memphis $133,600,000 Texas Austin $209,800,000 Dallas $287,300,000 Houston $446,700,000 Vermont Burlington $8,600,000 Virginia Richmond $42,900,000 Washington Burien $11,200,000 Des Moines $10,900,000 Ellensburg $3,800,000 Federal Way $30,300,000 Normandy Park $3,300,000 Seattle $228,300,000 Tacoma $57,500,000 Vancouver $44,600,000 White Center $5,900,000 Wisconsin Madison $62,800,000 Milwaukee $114,100,000

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you hear someone talking about how much money was spent trying to stop protestors attempting to stop and/or just draw attention to a war that wasn't fought for the reasons we were told, and had nothing to do with national security (other than the fact that we have a mafia-like racket among oil and related industries that block the development of alternative energies)

And this figure doesn't even include the millions of lost tourism revenue because war makes people feel crazy and want to stay at home, because the trickle down effect of the war will be continued loss of employment in education, art, health and most everything that humans care about and folks who lose jobs won't travel either, because Europeans and so many others are disgusted with the US invasion and occupation and some will choose not to visit SF this summer...

And the hotel and restaurant owners will blame it all on protesters and homeless folks.

"other than the fact that we have a mafia-like racket among oil and related industries that block the development of alternative energies"

Fact? Instead of just repeating the psychobabble you hear from your buddies why don't you take the time to do some research on this? Energy companies spend far more money on alternate energy research.

Far more money than whom?

Where's your proof?

You make a statement about how I make a statement that isn't backed-up with facts, but you best me still further by a statement that can't even be compared to anything.

Smooth.

Look, mainstream media sources cover the killing of technologies in the auto and oil industry. Just a few years ago, even Popular Mechanics put a big front cover story on this very issue.

How about the history with the auto and oil companies ganging up to squash alternative transportation networks. I grew up in Los Angeles, the car capitol of the country. It's documented fact that the auto and oil companies bought up all the assets of public transportation in LA in the 1940s and 50s and KILLED THE ENTIRE INFRASTRUCTURE. This infrastructure was on par with any system in the world. It was among the very best in the world. Gone. killed...........

Now, you want to talk about big-time corruption. How about the oil tax depletion allowance oil companies get, and all the other fucked-up things about our tax code and regulations that make it more favorable to auto companies to sell higher profit SUVs and such.

Look, I really don't come at this as a polemic. These are basic facts. But I'm really tired of trolls that toss out gotch-a questions like yours (even though the question you posed was not provable given lack of comparison). Maybe you're not a troll. Maybe you just get off on being bitchy and rude in your debates with people.

Chill out. Take a deep breath.