{"id":39219,"date":"2014-01-08T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39219"},"modified":"2014-01-08T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T22:21:07","slug":"levin-wont-support-vet-cola-fix-if-it-means-closing-welfare-loopholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39219","title":{"rendered":"Levin won’t support vet COLA fix, if it means closing welfare loopholes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Daily Caller<\/a> which reports that Democrat Senator Calr Levin, an ultra-liberal from Michigan, initially supported restoring the pension COLA increases for veterans…well, until he found that that bill’s author, Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), planned to pay for it by closing welfare loopholes;<\/p>\n

\u201cSen. Levin would support legislation to repeal the military pension cuts if such an amendment didn\u2019t endanger underlying legislation and if he supported the offset,\u201d the aide told The Hill. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t support the offset in Sen. Ayotte\u2019s legislation, so he couldn\u2019t offer support for her legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ayotte\u2019s bill would repeal the military pension cuts and replace the savings by requiring tax filers to have a Social Security number \u2014- as opposed to just an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number \u2014 in order to qualify for the ACTC.<\/p>\n

According to a 2011 Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report, people who were not authorized to work in the United States claimed billions in refundable tax credits in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, we all knew how that would turn out, but it’s nice to have the proof in print. Paying veterans what they earned, what they’re owed, is secondary to what the criminal class wants – because the illegal criminals are a larger constituency for Democrats. The Democrats were perfectly happy to screw the constituency of the other side, but “compromise” stops at their own front door.<\/p>\n

Of course, Republicans were idiots if they thought they would ever get to restore cuts to veterans’ pay in this fashion. And I predict that in the Fall, Democrats are going to be waving this particular bloody shirt at voters during the mid-terms. Not a tough prediction, actually. No tougher than the anti-veteran climate in Congress which I predicted six years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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