{"id":53933,"date":"2014-07-16T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53933"},"modified":"2014-07-15T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:51:38","slug":"congress-to-end-military-tobacco-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53933","title":{"rendered":"Congress to end Military tobacco subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/money.msn.com\/business-news\/article.aspx?feed=AP&#038;date=20140715&#038;id=17777108\">NBC News<\/a> article which reports that the new Defense spending bill plucks out the 25% discount that military members can take advantage of in the commissary;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the subcommittee, said studies show that tobacco use is higher in the military. He said that translates into more illnesses and health care costs of $1.6 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no reason these deadly products are subsidized,&#8221; Durbin said.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she was surprised that the subsidy was so high.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The House version of the defense policy bill would thwart any Navy efforts to restrict access to tobacco. In May, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., described smoking as one of the few pleasures for a member of the military, and he easily convinced his colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee to back his measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s like twenty little vacations in a box. But, hey, Congress knows what&#8217;s best for us, so go ahead, Durbin. You know what else is bad for the troops&#8217; health? Giving weapons to our future enemies, but I don&#8217;t see you stopping that practice anytime soon. Deadly products, FFS. But if someone offered to supply the troops with free pot, Durbin would break his own neck to vote for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to an NBC News article which reports that the new Defense &hellip; <a title=\"Congress to end Military tobacco subsidies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53933\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress to end Military tobacco subsidies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}