Political Quotes

“I believe the information brought forward in this debate will be of great surprise to most of the people that might happen to listen to this discussion. Certainly, the people I represent in North Dakota, I believe, are largely unaware of the fact that we, essentially, have a disabled veterans tax. This tax is imposed when you have someone that has earned a military retirement and on the other hand also had a disability payment from service in the military as a result of a service-connected injury resulting in permanent disability. The disabled veterans tax occurs when you have a 100 percent reduction of the retirement benefit by the disability payment receipt. So let me make it simple. The injured veteran receiving a disability payment would, upon retiring from the military, have their military retirement reduced 100 percent by the amount of the disability payment. Now, if that is not a disabled veterans tax, I do not know what is. And it is completely unacceptable. There is not another classification of Federal employee treated in this fashion.”