So now come the Bush administration’s military appropriations proposals, which the Army Times dismisses as “Nothing but lip service.” The administration, the Times reports:
-- Opposes doubling the present $6,000 gratuity paid to the families of troops who die on active duty.
-- Wants to roll back “recent modest increases in monthly imminent-danger pay (from $225 to $150) and family-separation allowance (from $250 to $100) for troops getting shot at in combat zones.”
-- Along with Republican leaders in Congress just can’t seem to get around to some very modest tax-relief proposals for military personnel (these are the same people, you’ll recall, who fell all over themselves cutting taxes on stock dividends, with the vast bulk of those savings going to people who don’t need it).
Just a matter of priorities, I guess.
8:19:12 PM 
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