"The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade, or nearly $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate scheduled for release Wednesday. ... In the months before the March 2003 Iraq invasion, the Bush administration estimated the Iraq war would cost no more than $50 billion."
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See: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-10-23-wacosts_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Here are a few other ways to think about it:
-- More than $120,000 for every person in the state of New York.
-- Almost two and a half times the entire financial output of the state of New York in one year (gross state product)
-- About twice the total amount received from Federal income taxes in one year
-- Four times the cost of the entire social security program for one year
-- Close to the entire amount of income received by the Federal government in one year, from all sources (taxes, duties, social security, etc)
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