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Canada’s Afghan mission costs only pennies a day

October 9, 2008 By admin

Original analysis by The Torch military blog:

Kudos to Mike Blanchfield for breaking the number down to a figure Canadian taxpayers could digest — what it means to them. I assume that since he started breaking it down, he won’t mind if I take it a bit further…

$1,500 per household over a decade works out to $150 per household per year. Assuming three people per household, that’s $50 per Canadian per year. That works out to about 13.7¢ per Canadian per day to run the Afghan mission.

Just to give you a bit of perspective, World Vision — certainly a noble-minded and worthwhile charity — asks for about ten times that daily amount to sponsor a single child.

And what are Canadians getting for that miniscule investment…?

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