[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

You’re parsing words. Increasing your federal income tax would not actually be a cut in your pay, but you’d still have less money.

Try again - this is just not a logical argument. Reducing how fast something will grow by setting against a more reasonable benchmark is not a cut. If they CUT 3% from what you're getting, THAT's a cut. Saying we're not going to grow it at the rate of the salary/wage inflation of the general population is not a cut.

[blueunicorn6]

As a fellow FReeper has already pointed out, I can explain it to you, but I can’t make you understand it. With this law, will the retired Veterans receive less money than they would have? We can use any words you want to use. How about instead of “cut”, we use the phrase “Give them a good screwing over”? Is that more to your liking?