Trump tax plan took money from children of US vets killed and gave it to the rich

[Miles Archer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/trumps-tax-plan-took-money-away-children-us-vets-killed-overseas-gave-rich-report/

Using the story of a military widow who saw her tax burden triple over the last two years, the report details how those in need — particularly families that have suffered the loss of a loved one in service to the country — have suffered even more while the top one percent have benefitted under the GOP’s tax plan.

According to the report, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones, was killed in a helicopter crash on Sept. 22, 2013, leaving behind his wife Theresa Jones and two children, now aged 5 and 11.

The report states the family receives “monthly compensation in the form of survivor benefits — one allotment through the Department of Defense is taxable, and another through the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is not taxed.”

According to Theresa Jones who shared her tax returns for the past two years, the portion she pays back to the government has jumped astronomically.

“For the past several years she’s had to pay roughly $1,150 in taxes on her sons’ benefits. This year, it was $5,400,” the reports states, with Jones stating, “My kids are owing the government back money, that the government gave them, because their dad died, and my kids have to pay it back.”

[montanacowboy]

1. Look at that vaudeville clown

and his botoxed idiot wife
they make me sick
fuck them to hell and back

Impeachment is off the table? let's give him 6 more years to destroy everything from which this country will NEVER recover.

[gratuitous]

2. Gee, I wonder if any of these families would like to share their opinion of the Trump Tax Act?

Your dad dies in the line of military duty, and the survivors wind up getting slammed for back taxes. Those suffering billionaires needed a tax break, though!

[NacLeeFF]

5. Suffering billionaires need a tax break. How else are they going to keep "their" money?

[keithbvadu2]

3. Think how much they would owe if Dad had been 'captured' before he died.

[NacLeeFF]

4. I remember Trump did really well in the GOP primaries among veterans and emphasized them a lot.

Gee, who could have thought he was lying!