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Governor Larry Hogan Announces Tax Relief For Veterans
ANNAPOLIS, MD - Today, Governor Larry Hogan joined Maryland Veterans Affairs Secretary-designee George Owings and local veterans to announce House Bill 482 – the Military Retirement Income Tax Exemption. Attached are pictures from this announcement.
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Special privileges for the anointed few.
3:43 Serve your country, you should be recognized. Any other snarky comments?
3:43 So, serving in the military is the same as being anointed? I guess a banking CEO who flounders away your money, only to be handed a multi million dollar bonus and tax breaks is more deserving?
The average military pension is less than 29K. Yea, that's a real privileged income bracket to be in. Anyone who retired from the military deserves this and more!
3:43 - obviously, you've never "pick up a weapon and man a post...you live under the freedom we provide for you - and then question us" to quote Col Nathan Jessup! Yes, I served at GTMO - you don't deserve to serve at McDonalds! You are a sorry POS! Lucky for you when I signed up - I didn't consider slime like you...
USMC Retired!
4:30 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
3:43 . the only comment you need to post is thank you for your service. The men and women of the armed forces deserve everything offered to them. They are often the poor and middle class that decided the military to be a better option than college. if it bothers you or you feel that you deserve this too, please join and serve. I hope you do not become a veteran, but if you do you might understand that it is well deserved.
Its not for serving in the military. Its a veteran benefit. Not all who serve are veterans.
4:30 said "obviously, you've never "pick up a weapon and man a post."
Some members of the military have done just as you said and some have never had their lives put in real danger.
If the pension average is $29,000 after 20 years That is a very good retirement compared to many other people. A twenty year vet has the opportunity to get second employment and perhaps a second pension depending on their work and will eventually collect social security too.
We all have our responsibility to pay our fair share of taxes no matter what kind of work we did.
when I hear privileged Americans who served their country complaining about their lot I think of the Americans who died fighting and did not come home alive. Many of them never had a spouse,never had children, and none got to enjoy being an American serviceman who retired and paid income taxes on their pension because they didn't have a pension. they were dead.
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5:56 I wrote this for another post about a month ago. You might want to rethink your position. Although I know you won't.
Also let me add that I joined the military from Maryland. In 24 years in the military I paid Md. income tax and only lived in the state for 3 of those years. I certainly paid more in taxes during those 21 years than any break I would receive from not having my military retirement taxed. Also after living in Md. for 7 years after retiring I moved to a state that doesn't tax my retirement thus depriving the state of taxes on my other taxable incomes which were much more than my retirement income.
I always love to read articles where the writer(s) act like the military is just another job similar to any other.
I can't speak for the other services but in a 20 year career in the US Navy I spent 10+ years stationed on a ship. In those 10+ years on a ship I spent over 5 years underway from my home port. When on a ship in home port it is not unusual to work 50+ hours a week(no overtime pay). Underway on a ship Sailors typically work 80-100 hours a week(12+ hrs a day for 7 days).
If Sailors hours were calculated the way some other professions(e.g. Firefighters) hours were calculated than a week underway would equal 168 hours. In other words 1 week underway would actually equal 4 weeks for pay purposes. Put another way 1 year of underway time would equal 4 years or for a typical career 5 years of underway time would equal 20 years.
Therefore a 20 year career would actually amount to over 35 years for pay. Of course no overtime pay, no paid holidays off, away from friends and family half your life, and oh yea occasionally getting shot at. On the bright side you do get 30 days vacation(make sure you use it before you lose it) and you might get to see some pretty neat places.
Just don't write about the military like it's just another job(IT'S NOT). CONGRESS TAKE NOTE!
Barry
Anonymous 3:43, obviously you never served. How about thank you, to all veterans who have protected your freedoms and rights. Veterans especially those who served 20 years or more deserve this entitlement. Unfortunately sounds like you didn't have the Balls to serve your country, your ignorance speaks loudly.
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