Open Thread - 07 May 2026 - $5K per Household?
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 5:00am
$5K per Household?
A recent article from Really American notes that Representative Ro Khanna, during the session on the 29th April that Defense Secretary Hegseth had with the House Armed Services Committee (it lasted 6 hours, that session!), said that there are estimates that the war in Iran is costing each American household $5k. Hegseth said the overall cost is lower, $25 billion instead of $631 billion, but that is still $600 per household. Now, I think it needs to cost each American household $0. In other words, it needs to not be happening!
And, of course, this doesn't even include the costs of the sanctions, the gas/oil/diesel/wev costs, grocery costs, and everything else. So I wonder what the true cost of this Trump crap is? Really? It cost over 100$ to fill the gas tank of our Toyota Tacoma truck yesterday. 100$! And it was over 350$ to go to the grocery store to get 3 bags of groceries, cat litter, some soda pop and toilet paper! Gads!

Yep!

