Posted on 04/30/2017 8:04:57 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
John McDonnell tried to weaken our cash-strapped military by allowing taxpayers to 'opt out' of helping to fund them, it has been revealed.
Records from the House of Commons show that in 2014 the Shadow Chancellor proposed a motion to allow voters direct the portion of their income tax that goes towards defence into a 'non-military security fund'.
In 1999 the longtime Corbyn ally tried to change the law so taxpayers could divert the money spent on defence into foreign aid.
Armed Forces minister Mike Penning told the Sun: 'Security would be at risk with John McDonnell holding the purse strings.
'Theresa May and the Conservatives are growing the defence budget to equip us in a dangerous world, while Corbyn and McDonnell want to take the axe to our military.
Mr McDonnell's spokesman: 'This is not Labour policy and will not be in our manifesto.
'What really puts our armed forces at risk is a Tory government that has cut troop numbers by the tens of thousands, and if re-elected will slash numbers further.'
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Perhaps the GOP can offer a way to opt out of paying for abortions?
To force someone who has strong religious or moral objections to murdering babies in the womb pay for it is tyranny!
Cindy Sheehan, call your tent.
It’s not lost, I still have it...
Indeed, liberals pay sht to “charities”. A system like that and all their pet gov programs
would
go south
PRECISELY!
A signature characteristic of a liberal is the willingness to be quite generous with someone else’s money!
Gotta start somewhere.
Too bad US taxpayers can’t choose where our tax money goes. Mine would go for the military in a heartbeat and not for the giveaway welfare programs.
I actually like this idea, if expanded and done fairly.
Have a 10% flat tax rate, which would be mandatory
BUT allow citizens to choose to which programs and departments, and in what amounts, their entire tax payments would go to.
military and wall - and none to pay congress critters
not to worry!
UK officials admit there are 6-10,000 Jihadis loose in the country
Is Labour planning on pulling out of NATO, too? If not, there’s that little 2% of GDP prob to be dealt with....
And I thought Democrats could be dumb....
And in return, the military is not obligated to defend these libs.
Agree 100%.
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