Bill would make all military pay tax-free

Army Times | March 22, 2007 | Rick Maze

[Kaslin]

Gannett articles can not be posted, so you have to click on the link to read the article

[Kaslin]

Here

[Brilliant]

With the Dems in charge, you can be certain this won't be passed.

[LambSlave]

Even routine CONUS duty? Exempt from federal, state, and local? If so, I think I'll go re-up...

[Night Hides Not]

I'm not so sure this is a good idea. I understand the value of making certain benefits tax-free, to include combat pay.

However, to make all military compensation tax-free rubs me the wrong way.

[Non-Sequitur]

With the Dems in charge, you can be certain this won't be passed.

Even with the Republicans in charge it shouldn't pass. Servicemen and women are citizens of the U.S. as well, with the same obligations as civilians. One of those obligations is to pay taxes.

[Kaslin]

I don't think so either and if it does, they will have to pay the taxes after they get out. You can bet on it

[Kaslin]

there is no way that States or local government will agree with this

[Americanexpat]

They can always make up the deference by raising the taxes of those a$$holes out in Portland along with Cindy{s crowd and entertainers.

[Tribune7]

Makes sense to me.

[Steel Wolf]

Actually, I've heard a number of people support this, even if it meant a cut in overall military pay. The government is paying military salaries, which are very specific and uniform pay grades. You can factor in almost exactly how much you pay them to pay you back, and cut accordingly. Dropping over a million people off the tax rolls would cut out a good chunk of the IRS middleman, and save the resources needed to help deployed servicepersonnel do their taxes. We'd save money all over, and it not really cost a dime.

[Kaslin]

From the article

-- snip --Culberson is not the first person to propose federal tax exclusions for all service members. Similar legislation has rarely received any serious attention in Congress, because the drop in federal tax revenues would have to be made up by increasing taxes on other Americans, or by cutting spending on federal entitlement programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and military and federal civilian retired pay

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It would definitely affect my husband's retirement pay and his and my social security and medicare

[Element187]

Uhhh military pay should already be tax free ... who the 'f' taxes our heros that protect our nation day in and day out ... oh yea... democrats.

[Element187]

Even with the Republicans in charge it shouldn't pass. Servicemen and women are citizens of the U.S. as well, with the same obligations as civilians. One of those obligations is to pay taxes.

Then we should at least pay our military something close to what they would make as a civilian. For a meezley 1k a month, we should either pay them more or pay them tax free.

[Beckwith]

Would get my vote.

[neodad]

If I remember correctly, in a combat zone, enlisted pay is already tax free. For officers, it was a percentage that was tax free. Other incentives such as imminent danger pay were also tax free.

[ThunderStruck94]

I am a Navy O-4 pilot who has been in the Navy for 20 years counting my enlisted time. I am not in the service for money for sure. I pay almost no taxes because I really don't make a whole lot of money and with a family to support (My wife is college educated but doesn't work because we move every two years). I think that we should be better compensated. Every time we step outside of this country we do not get to live with the benefits of living on the inside. At the very least, all money earned while outside this country's boarders should be tax free.

[Kaslin]

That is correct. When my husband was in Vietnam in 1967/68 and then again in 1971. his pay was excempted, but after he retired he had to make up for it. But what the congressman sugeests is that all military pay, regardless if the troops are in a war zone or not should be excempted. At least that is the way I read it.

[gunnyg]

Personally, they (the sTATE) should repent and get their ****hooks out of our pockets and their guns out of our faces--all of us--as it should be, and always should have been!

Not possible, of course--since gub-mint officials are NOT living in fear of the populace as intended, by the founders for one.

S/Fidelis
D1ck
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[Brilliant]

True. But the GOP is not in charge. The Dems are, and they'd be the last one to pass anything has to do with cutting taxes.

[dakine]

Borders...