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Foreign aid folly. (Insider Report).
The U.S. Constitution does not authorize the practice of "foreign aid" -- extracting money from U.S. taxpayers to subsidize foreign governments. In effect, this pernicious practice amounts to taxation without representation, since the foreign rulers to whom the aid is given are not accountable to the taxpayers from whom it is taken.
By far the largest beneficiary of U.S. foreign aid is the socialist government of Israel, with the equally socialist government of Egypt coming in at second place. In a presentation on Middle East policy commissioned by the U.S. Army War College, economist Thomas Stauffer estimated that since 1973 -- the year of the most recent full-scale Arab-Israeli war -- aid to Israel has cost the U.S. about $1.6 trillion, or about $5,700 per American. This amounts to more than twice the cost of the Vietnam War.
The December 9th Christian Science Monitor points out that ...
- CONGRESSIONAL PROPOSAL ON FOREIGN AID SHIELDS ISRAEL, MIDDLE EAST
- News wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency Matthew Dorf December 13, 1994 700+ words
...CONGRESSIONAL PROPOSAL ON FOREIGN AID SHIELDS ISRAEL, MIDDLE EAST FROM...widespread fears that Israel will suffer a cut it foreign aid under a Republican...vision of a new foreign aid program on Monday. His proposal shields Israel, Egypt, Jordan...
- BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Jockeying for foreign aid: Israel assistance
- News wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jennifer Dorf, Matthew; Botag February 8, 1995 700+ words
...HEADLINES:. Jockeying for foreign aid: Israel assistance spotlighted The...released a study calling American foreign aid to Israel and Egypt a "nightmarish...members of Congress. "U.S. foreign aid to Israel and Egypt remains locked on...
- Bitter battle erupts over U.S. foreign aid: Who loves Israel more?
- Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent Douglas M. Bloomfield May 26, 1995 700+ words
...erupts over U.S. foreign aid: Who loves Israel more?. Aid to...and now expects Israel's friends, who...constituency for foreign aid, to work for passage...a vote against foreign aid. Leading pro-Israel political operatives...
- House foreign aid bill preserves current levels for Israel, Egypt
- News wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jennifer Batog July 12, 1995 700+ words
...12-1995 House foreign aid bill preserves current levels for Israel, Egypt. Despite...Capitol Hill, foreign aid for Israel, Egypt and the...Committee, the pro-Israel lobby, one of whose main issues is foreign aid, was "extremely...
- With foreign aid bill delayed, Israel asks for early assistance
- News wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency Matthew Dorf November 30, 1995 700+ words
...30-1995 With foreign aid bill delayed, Israel asks for early assistance...does not approve the foreign aid bill. With this in mind, Israel's ambassador to...observers expect the foreign aid bill to pass, and Israel to ultimately receive...
- Congress Watch: Israel's Friends Go To The Hill to Speed Foreign Aid
- Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Curtiss, Richard H. January 31, 1996 700+ words
...The Hill to Speed Foreign Aid By Richard H. Curtiss Lobbyists for Israel are used to having...expressed puzzlement at Israel lobby insistence that they separate the foreign aid bill from more controversial...Unlike any other foreign aid recipient, or any domestic ...
- Foreign aid to Israel.(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: The New American April 22, 2002 700+ words
...government's foreign aid program." Could...military equipment to Israel that are, and...government's foreign aid program"? The...always condemned all foreign aid to any government...ago about aid to Israel ("Stop Financing...
- House okays foreign aid bill; includes aid to Israel, Egypt
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post HILLEL KUTTLER June 9, 1995 700+ words
...09-1995 THE first foreign aid challenge in the new...ended successfully for Israel - barely - with yesterday...Representatives approving the 1996 foreign aid authorization bill...deliver $3 billion to Israel and $2.1 billion to...
