A double amputee who served in Iraq is pushing lawmakers to end the 'wounded veterans tax'

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A double amputee who served in Iraq is pushing lawmakers to end the 'wounded veterans tax'

www.nbcnews.com /politics/congress/double-amputee-iraq-pushing-lawmakers-end-wounded-veterans-tax-rcna208619

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How about push for not going to war at all, baby killer
And how many billionaires would that help? Oh, better luck next year!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Anyone who knows enough veterans knows not to listen to this sob story. They will literally sit there, out in the open, and discuss how to game disability and increase their rating. Keep in mind, veterans disability is nothing like SSDI. They can continue to work regardless of rating, though many just don't want to, which is why they are trying to increase that rating for more money.
- While I see your point, in all honesty, who cares? This is the same type of Karen/Boomer mindset of "ThEY're living oFf ThE GuBErMenT [Food Stamps, Unemployment etc.] BecAUsE thEy DoNt wAnT to WoRk"
  A veteran is still part of the working class (for the most part, I'm sure there are exceptions) so to me, if any of the working class can manage to live without working, be it through SNAP or disability or unemployment or Veterans Benefits, more power to them!
  Better my tax dollars to a "system gaming" vet than lining the pocket of some rich fuck
  
  I'd rather less money be spent period on the military and spent instead on every person. I'd probably have more sympathy if a majority of these vets didn't support the right and make those same exact boomer statements you mention about everybody else while actively stealing from taxpayers themselves. They're mostly class traitors fyi.
- Two vets at my last job were always talking about this. Know why? Because they couldn't get jack shit. And yes, they could continue to work, had to in fact. One was too physically disabled too work, the other too mentally disabled, yet they had to work minimum wage jobs at Lowe's.

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