Effects Of The Vietnam War On America

The major effects that the Vietnam war had on America were that America spent 168 billion dollars on the war, so America was financially in trouble. It also made the people of America think about war differently in general because of the horrible things they thought America was doing in Vietnam. It changed the racial war America was fighting, people seeing blacks and whites fight side by side for the same cause really made people see how similar they were. In 1969 President Johnson introduced a 10% income tax surcharge, this means that the working people of America had increased taxes to make up for the cost of the Vietnam war. A big change in the racial war and to America itself was that the draft had ended after Vietnam, due to the realization that it was unfair and not in favor to the lower-income and low-educated which at the time was mostly made up of black citizens. America's view on war in general was greatly changed due to certain disturbing events.
As stated before America spent around 168 billion dollars on the war causing major a major inflation for American citizens. The 10% tax surcharge requested by President Johnson to pay for the war was to be in effect for two year or until the tax was no longer needed to support the war in America's efforts to win. Another major effect that the war had on America is that a lot of factories that used to be making consumer goods were now making military supplies to aid the war. America stopped making goods for its own people and started making equipment, weapons, and other supplies for another country’s war. During these times interest rates went up decreasing the money that consumers and businesses used.(How did the Vietnam War affect America?) All of the money being spent on the war was going overseas and none of it was