Dear Editor,

Our disabled veterans are grossly under compensated and have been for generations.

This is most especially true for our totally and permanently disabled veterans.

Our disabled veterans have been asking Congress for fair and adequate compensation since the end of World War I (1918).

That was a 103 years ago. Where is it?

In 2022 a totally disabled veteran with no dependents is compensated at the ridiculous rate of $39,984.72 dollars annually.

The National Average Wage Index for 2020 was $55,628.60 dollars per annum, and the median income for 2020 was $67,521.00. The per capita GDP in 2020 was $63,416.00 dollars, among the highest in the world.

This rate of compensation to disabled veterans is deliberate and cruel.

There is a far better chance that the Second Coming of Christ will be next Tuesday than there is a chance that our disabled veterans will be fairly compensated anytime soon. They realize that they are being manipulated and given short shrift by the wealthy and politically connected top 5% of the wealth pyramid in order to keep their compensation low in order to ensure a low tax rate for the Elites.

They use the national debt as a constant scare tactic to garner support from the working class and poor.

We can levy at least a penny tax on every dollar traded on the stock market to pay off the national debt and/or finance proper compensation for our disabled veterans.

It is time for the Investor Class to pay back what they have stolen out of the people’s coffers in the GOP enforced 2018 tax relief scam.

Given the huge problem of wealth disparity in this country that entire scam was a national disgrace.

The New York Stock Exchange alone traded about 1.46 billion shares a day in 2019. There are presently 13 separate stock exchanges operating in the USA.

This is now a grave national security situation.

Please introduce legislation as soon as possible in the 117th Congress to set compensation at least at the level of the National Average Wage Index for ALL types of totally and permanently disabled veterans.

And/or give federal income tax exclusion to ALL types of totally and permanently disabled veterans for all income regardless of source up to $125K per annum.

I do not request a response.

Bonnie Franco

Wheeling