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== =The Home Front:=

Organizing the Economy.
Government had progressive ideas to manage to pay for war and to manage the economy. These ideas shaped the American Government and how it organized the war effort. The United States spent about 32 billion dollars by the end of WWI. The Congress had raised income tax rates to fund the effort of the war, however, those taxes did not cover the costs. The US government had also borrowed over 20 billion dollars for the sale of Liberty and Victory Bonds.