Pay Raise, Tricare Fees, ‘Couples BAH’ Might Take Months To Set

Mismanagement and spending exorbitant amounts of money in all the wrong places are the problem.

CPI numbers come out 10/13 so we'll find out COLA soon. MOAA is looking at somewhere around 1.8 %. As long as taxes don't go up that's at least a small raise for some. Tricare fees go up in 2020. With $20 trillion in the red something has to give. Adding a couple trillion to debt due to lowering taxes is not a good start. I'm still waiting for it to trickle down from the 80's so this time will likely be no different. Increase revenue, lower costs and waste has to happen. We're running out of road to kick the can down and although they talk about it they don't act on it. Mood seems to be "as long as were solvent till I die it's not my problem". No wonder the young folks don't trust us. At this pace they will be so upside down that 1/2 of their pay to IRS won't even make a dent it. Figuratively, and not literally speaking - before you warm up your data and start splitting hairs to flame me with. Maybe this time will be different, so let's hope.

You know what? Sometimes those tax cuts comeback in the form of jobs, benefits, and other worthwhile things. While everyone is entitled to their opinions why continue to put everything our government does in a negative light until you see what happens next? When tax cuts for corporations became a reality back in the Reagan days productivity in this country shot through the roof. Maybe this will encourage corporations to come back to America and spend some of those billions sitting in offshore accounts right now, because our last administration wanted to share their wealth with everyone else?