This is how Republicans support our troops.

[wvit1001]

In the latest round of talks for the upcoming defense spending bill, Republicans are once again trying to slice away big spending chunks to pay for their subsidies to multinational defense corporations – but this time, they’re taking aim at our soldiers’ housing and ignoring the loud and furious protests from the Pentagon. Hidden away in the enormous document are changes to the military’s housing compensation program that would deny our fighting men and women a crucial source of extra income – but Senate Republicans want to nickel-and-dime them anyway while shrugging off enormously expensive purchases in materiel and defense contracts.

How it works now -

Service members who don’t live in barracks receive a monthly stipend called Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH). Right now, it’s a simple, flat-rate (and tax-free) cash payment that’s handed out according to soldiers’ rank, the cost of housing where they live, and whether or not they have dependents. Under current rules, service members are free to rent cheap apartments and pocket the leftover cash, or they can share housing while each getting a full allowance—a popular way for single soldiers and “dual military” couples to offset low military pay. The stipends range from a little over $600 a month for an unmarried private to more than $5,000 a month for a high-ranking officer with dependents.

What the republicans want -


But under the new rules, soldiers would no longer be able to pocket the unused portion of their allowance, instead creating another layer of bureaucracy and forcing soldiers to provide minute details of their housing expenses. The changes would create savings of $2 billion over the next five years, which is a literal drop in the bucket for the military’s gargantuan $600 billion-a-year budget.

The move literally takes money out of our underpaid soldiers’ pockets in the name of fiscal austerity. Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, remarks that “it kind of baffles me. They’re cutting back on exactly the types of compensation that people value most [and] ignoring the elephant in the room…it’s not the kind of reform that’s going to put the military compensation system on a more sustainable trajectory.”



http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/06/28/senate-republicans-launch-plot-steal-billions-benefits-active-military-members/

[dont-blameme]

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Democrats are known for the liars they are and their supporters are worse!

[wvit1001]

so you don't want to talk about republicans and their treatment of our troops?

[dont-blameme]

How do democrats treat out troops wvit, you know all about it don't you, when did you serve?

Better yet wvit what did the democrats hide in those bills?

[Byteryder]

I don't think he's served a lick.

[wvit1001]

so neither of you want to discuss the topic you're just trying desperately to change the subject?

[dont-blameme]

Why don't you tell us how democrats treat the troops wvit! You do have experience don't you wvit?

[gwboolean]

why don't you tell us Blimey?  We damn sure know how you TrEA$on party @ssholes treat our troops.  By the way Blimey, have you TrEA$on party @ssholes come up with any new plans on your agenda to shut down the VA lately?