Budget ideas would be bitter pills for troops
A semiannual report from the Congressional Budget Office called “Budget Options” might as well be called “250 Ways for Lawmakers to Lose Re-election” – because that would almost certainly be the outcome if its suggestions were followed.
Among the ideas in the 2007 report, released earlier this week, is cutting veterans’ disability payments for all but the most seriously injured, making active-duty service members pay more than three times as much as they now do for the right to post-service education benefits, limiting annual military pay increases to 0.5 percent while paying bigger bonuses to people in critically needed skills, and charging more for older retirees who use the Tricare for Life insurance plan.
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