there is no way that States or local government will agree with this
-- 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
You pay no state taxes on military pay here in Illinois
They don't have to.
Oops. They'll just raise EVERYONE'S taxes to get at the military