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Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) has called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to strip benefits from any service members and veterans who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a Monday report from Business Insider.

Gallego — a veteran himself — stated that those service members' actions are "not representative of the large population of American veterans" and they should be punished accordingly.

What are the details?

Gallego, according to the outlet, asked Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough to withdraw benefits from those active duty service members, veterans, and military retirees who took part in the Jan. 6 riots in Washington, D.C.

In a letter, Gallego wrote, "The behavior of these individuals is not representative of the large population of American veterans, the vast majority of whom served honorably and are appalled by the thought of insurrection in the country they served. Yet, many of the veterans and service members who attacked their own government actively and enthusiastically enjoy special benefits given to them by their fellow citizens."

read more here: https://www.theblaze.com/news/lawmaker-strip-benefits-from-vets-who-attended-capitol-riot

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    • Don't you get it? The new Totalitarian Regime they are installing is legalizing our extermination. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2...........We've been overthrown.

       

  • What Gallego is proposing is strictly retaliatory, meant to intimiidate, and he should resign. What he is proposing is un-American.

    • What Gallego is proposing singles out a class of individuals for special punishment without due process of law... a trial.  Such an act is called a Bill of Attainder.. See:   Article 1, Section 9, clause 3.  Does anyone in Congress know the Constitution?

      bill of attainder is prohibited by Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution because it deprives the person or persons singled out for punishment of the safeguards of a trial by jury.  This sort of conduct should result in his expulsion from Congress.

    • Article II, Section 1, Clause 2...........We've been overthrown. Intimidating is enforcement with ur new Totalitarian Regime.  You ain't seen nothing yet!

    • Also illegal. If they can get away with this how long before they  take Social security away from seniors who happen to be Republicans. 

    • They will not take away your social security... instead, they will devalue the dollar so much that your social security check will be worthless... the Government is robbing the retirement accounts of millions of Americans... social security, 401K's, and defined benefit plans.... ALL DOLLAR BASED INSTRUMENTS annuities and retirement accounts are being directly devalued with every dollar Congress spends without balancing the budget... Monetary easing... printing trainloads of currency is impacting the value of our dollar-based equities and monetary instruments.  They don't need to raise taxes... when they can simply print dollars to cover their debts... Guess who pays for those mystery dollars?  That's right those holding dollar-based equities... securities.  The super-rich hold real property, and the means of production... they are not impacted directly by inflation or dollar-based assets... real estate and the means of production keep pace with inflation and are exempt from monetary easing... limitless printing of currency.

    • Exactly Marlene...

      In point of fact the left doesn't need to raise taxes... they can simply print money... which is a direct tax on the value of every dollar in circulation... taxation by inflation.  A clever way to rob the average citizen whose investments are mainly in dollar-based instruments.  The wealthy however can avoid much of their losses by divesting of dollar-based securities and investing in real estate, the means of production and other commodities, and asset-based securities... mortgages, silver, gold, businesses, intellectual property, etc.  Thus the burden of financing the government is paid for by the MIDDLE CLASS and POOR.

       

    • "your social security check will be worthless"

      Will be???  Damn near that now.  They have been working of starving us for many years

    • You're correct... the combination of quantitative and monetary easing is destroying our Dollar based instruments used to fund our retirements... holding financial investments that are paid out in dollars is a disaster in the long run as the dollar loses value so do those instruments and contracts... most retirement accounts are funded thru dollar-based instruments and they are being eaten alive by trillions of dollars in transfer payments to the indigent, social welfare, government programs, and money market speculators.  George Soros made billions manipulating the money markets.

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