09-24-2020, 07:05 PM
(09-24-2020, 10:55 AM)PhilHos Wrote: I don't see as to how you can be against this. These people were disabled through serving their country, correct? At the very least, we owe them tax breaks to get vehicles equipped to help with their disability. I'd go so far as to say the vehicle should be provided by the government at no cost to the vet.
I've let it set long enough to give my opinion, which also means explaining why someone could be against it. Our cities and states did not decide to send these men and women into combat. My father didn't develop leukemia because Fayette County, Pennsylvania (or Harrisonburg, Virginia) sent him to Vietnam; the federal government did that. I think that it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide relief like that to the veterans, disabled or not, and it should not fall to the states and localities.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
