I love the military. Dad, sister, brothers, brother in law, friends are all vets.
But I do have a question about whether military retirement and life long disability benefits are constitutional. While they are compassionate and desirable, are they truly constitutional?
If we’re conservatives, we have to be consistent. Does the Constitution allow for such benefits?
“If we’re conservatives, we have to be consistent. Does the Constitution allow for such benefits?”
Let’s first check and see if the Constition allows for Obama’s Auntie Zeituni (former illegal alien before the “fix”) to be living large on the American taxpayers’ dime.
I love the military. Dad, sister, brothers, brother in law, friends are all vets.
But I do have a question about whether military retirement and life long disability benefits are constitutional. While they are compassionate and desirable, are they truly constitutional?
If we’re conservatives, we have to be consistent. Does the Constitution allow for such benefits?
Lurk and vette6387 ,
view BlatherNaut’s comment below:
. . . The conditions were accepted knowingly as part of military service . . .
As well as the rest of the comment.
BlatherNaut is exactly correct. Part of the compensation for lower pay is the benefit offered and promised. It is not combat for which we are compensated (which has its own compensation program) but, rather, the 24 hour a-day on call life, lower wages (every officer, for instance, over the rank of captain has a masters deg. on a much lower pay scale than civilian counterpart), long work hours, and that’s just a start.
It is not a perk to have benefits in the military.
Nor is it any kind of favor from the taxpayers, and please keep in mind military members certainly pay taxes out of their earnings.
However, the point I wanted to make was that the government has very few real tasks. The New Deal and The Great Society of democrat presidents notwithstanding.
Protection of our borders is one of those few roles.
I hope you’ll keep that in mind when you do your constitutional research. And please get back to us with your results.