I’m not in favor of higher taxes generally, but I DON’T CARE how high they would have to raise taxes in order to put our VA in proper shape. The VA hospitals should be the best in the nation, period. Whatever it takes.
You don’t have to raise taxes. Just quit giving money to the muslim countries and give it to the VA. Amazing that we don’t support our vets but we lavishly fund the countries that were largely responsible for injuring the vets in the first place.
VA Hospitals are like our public schools. It won't matter how much money you try to throw at the problem. The real problem is the government employees staffing the system, and the difficulty of firing the incompetent/corrupt ones.
“I’m not in favor of higher taxes generally, but I DON’T CARE how high they would have to raise taxes in order to put our VA in proper shape. The VA hospitals should be the best in the nation, period. Whatever it takes.”
The better idea would be to move all the VA hospitals to private enterprise and just have the governmernt fund veterans healh care through government-paid health insurance that’s equal to what we give our Congressmen and Senators. The VA doesn’t exist for the benefit of the vets, but rather, like all government “enterprises,” it exists for the benefit of those who “work” there. It’s the Post Office and the DMV all rolled up in to one gigantic political turd that provides jobs to people who don’t deserve them.
I think it isn’t really the money so much as bureaucrats that simply don’t give a rats butt about anything other than what’s in it for themselves. They run the VA to their convenience with little regard for the overall comfort, or welfare of the veterans.
They wouldn’t be cloaked as they are if they had concern for the purpose of the VA. They’d be out front with their lists of needs to support the vets as the VA is designed.
What first has to be addressed is how the bureaucrats got the attitude in the first place, and progress from there.
I don’t think lack of money is really the problem. I think the VA became a place for a cushy job and seems oversight of actual work at all levels became non-existent.
They are supposed to hire veterans but an article I read last year said they are not actually hiring veterans, especially in management positions. Few in management last year had any military service.
A real shake-up needs to happen top down, layer by layer all the way to the bottom.
Their budget certainly needs to be looked at and I am all for giving them what they need to take care of our veterans, but I think we would find money is the least of the problem.
Taxes won’t change a thing, attitude is the problem. Government union workers doing as little as possible knowing they can’t be fired.
The point is - They wouldn’t have to raise taxes at all.
They simply have to quit spending the money on Illegal Aliens, Non-Refugees and the able bodied poor who refuse to work for $7.25/hour. (Because they can make $30K+/yr sitting on their dead asses.)