Burr aids veterans by raising prices on the food they buy

Why appropriate money when you can squeeze it out of families:

Burr’s decision to fund S. 277 by putting commissaries at risk has been roundly criticized by military associations, commissary patrons and the American Logistics Association, which represents suppliers doing business with base stores. American Logistics projects that, if passed as written, S. 277 would raise grocery prices an average of $4,000 a year for military families and kill 50,000 store jobs for family members.

Good Lord. This is not the first anti-veteran bill Burr has pushed, but it could easily be the worst.

Commissary advocates on Capitol Hill suggest the store system had a target on its back for deficit hawks already.

Burr’s staff merely had found and embraced a cost-savings proposal floated by the Congressional Budget Office for the last several years. It said combining store systems into one network over five years period would save $1.7 billion annually, assuming prices were raised an average of 5 percent.

The same commission said some savings could be returned to families in the form of a grocery allowance to offset the price increase. S. 277 proposes no such allowance.

With all the active duty, retired, and NG/Reserve military families in this state, there should be enough votes to run the lawnmower man out of Washington. But we keep sending him back, over and over again. Crazy.