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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷7/11/2017 5:42:31 pm PDT

Lest you forget, the GOP is all in for the troops. Congressman Phil Roe (R-Tenn) thinks veterans should be paying for their benefits.

stripes.com

They support the troops though. (spit)

WASHINGTON - Congress is in the early stages of considering a mandate for servicemembers to pay into the GI Bill - a proposal that has drawn sharp criticism from one veterans organization, while another argues it would improve and protect the education benefit for the long haul.

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs gave veterans groups a draft last week of legislation that would deduct $100 from servicemembers’ basic pay each month for two years, for a total of $2,400, in order for them to receive education benefits. The Post-9/11 GI Bill created in 2009 doesn’t require servicemembers to pay into it, but an earlier version of the benefit - the Montgomery GI Bill - mandated recipients to pay $100 per month for one year.

Veterans of Foreign Wars issued a statement Tuesday, calling the proposed $2,400 buy-in a “tax on troops” that VA committee leadership was attempting to pass quickly and quietly, without allowing opposition the chance to speak up.

(more at Stars and Stripes from April)