Use of disabled military to assist with deportation process of illegals

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I meet many, many, many people in the course of a week who are 100% disabled military, yet are holding full time jobs, have “VA owned” side businesses, and are enjoying tax-exempt property tax status along with favorable tax status for their business.

As a retired physical therapist, even folks in sip-and-puff power wheelchairs took pride in continuing to contribute in a meaningful way to their local communities and their country. Think Steven Hawking to put aside your excuses.

Here’s my proposal:
Disabled military members should be utilized to free up ICE personnel to round up illegals. ICE officers are more thoroughly trained in the legal and tactical issues, and we need them in the field.

Disabled military members who are physically fit can assist in processing paperwork and guarding detainees until they are ready to be moved.

As a thank you for this service, they will retain their 100% disabled pension and property tax exemption.

If an otherwise qualified disabled veteran would rather take a pass, then he forfeits the property tax exemption especially since he is drawing not just his pension but is usually working another full time job or running a business.

This is a win/win. The member who chooses to assist ICE in this important work can gain a sense of fulfillment in contributing to the country’s success. The local school districts also win. With so many people moving to retirement-friendly areas and then claiming full exemption to property taxes which fund the school district and municipality, we’re setting up for an implosion. As the percentage increases of homeowners in an area that are tax-exempt, the burden increases on the municipality and schools to, effectively, do more with less while residents continue an expectation of a certain level of services.

I’m a strong believer in limited federal government. This would be a time restricted policy with a sunset clause. Determining the sunset date may need to wait until the new administration has a better idea of the real numbers that ICE is facing. In any event, the sunset date can be set no later than 100 days into the new administration.

I’m interested in using the talent that exists among the patriots in this country to get this very important, urgent task completed. Constructive, real feedback is appreciated.

UPDATE TO THIS POST 11/28/2024
With the state of Texas announcing that it will revise their bussing policy and rather than send illegals to sanctuary cities, they will send them directly to ICE detention facilities, I believe this policy is now even more workable than before.

With Texas having the largest veteran population of any state (1,543,160 in 2023) if even 10% of these opt for service as processors and supervisors of detainees to allow ICE agents to round up and transport, it will be a huge boost to ICE and its capabilities.

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I disagree with penalizing people for not participating. They didn’t have to serve in the military to begin with, but they did. They put their lives on the line for the rest of us. Property tax should be abolished anyway. And they earned their pensions. Period. If you want to make the opportunity AVAILABLE and pay them for their service, fine with me. But no penalties for not doing so. I feel particularly strongly about this issue because many of them are disabled due to being used as lab rats for “vaccines” and other questionable things, rather than from injury in war. That’s not the job of the military. And they were forced to participate, many of them losing their careers and pensions if they refused. I’m tired of everyone seeking to heap penalties on people who didn’t HAVE to enlist, and I will not support anything that heaps more penalties on them for not complying, considering that this idea of yours was not part of their contracts with the government, and they have fulfilled their contracts. You have no legal basis for these penalties. It’s not part of the contract.

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They didn’t have to serve but are happy to reap benefits above and beyond what should be offered.

Why do they get to opt out of contributing to the security and solvency of their community? That’s exactly what happens when they get the pass on property taxes.

I work for a new home builder and see many a “100% disabled vet” gleefully share that between his pension, property tax waiver and current full time job, he can afford the 650K to 750K house because he doesn’t get the property tax bill.

If he can be 100% disabled AND have a good paying full time job, then he can afford to pay property tax. If he wants to keep that property tax waiver, then take a pause from the job (not asking for forever, it would be time-limited) and provide service to the country. If he’s OK with paying property taxes, then continue to live life as you have, no harm no foul. Now his “service” will be in contributing like all his other fellow citizens to the well-being of his community, state and country by paying property taxes.

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These people have already EARNED the right to be free of property tax, because they put their life on the line for YOU, and FULFILLED THEIR CONTRACT, AND THAT CONTRACT INCLUDED EXEMPTION FROM PROPERTY TAX. You don’t modify the terms of a contract already fulfilled. You have a lot of gall suggesting that they should be deprived of a benefit for having laid their lives on the line for YOU. They have been found to be disabled by the military. It doesn’t matter what they do if they have been found disabled.

ANYBODY WHO CAN ESCAPE PROPERTY TAX HAS MY BLESSING. NO ONE SHOULD BE PAYING PROPERTY TAX.

Property tax does not help the well-being of the community. It takes ancestral homes away from poor elderly widows and casts them into the street. If the government provides housing for them, this is many times more costly than allowing them to be tax free. Property tax is used to pay for prisons for children, so-called “public schools” where they are involuntarily intermittently incarcerated for the crime of being young. Where they are taught how to be illiterate with no math skills, and to act like animals, and harm the people around them, and follow a tyrannical government slavishly. Property tax is ILLEGAL under federal land patent laws. In many states, a home is taken from someone for non-payment, and none of the remaining value is returned. Theft of equity. This is a violation of the Constitution, the takings clause. Property tax is a tax on FANTASY UNREALIZED CAPITAL GAINS AND THE ORIGINAL PURCHASE PRICE. And it doesn’t happen just once, but year after year after year until you end up paying TWICE what they think your home is worth over your lifetime. It is a fiction and a fairy tale. Your home isn’t worth a certain amount until you actually sell it for that amount. Property tax is not based on ability to pay. Your own argument agrees with that.

You don’t own your home. You are just a renter. The government owns your home. Pay the rent or be evicted. Even though you paid for your home with your own labor. And that is OK with you.

Go try your arguments on someone else. They won’t work on me. Property tax is destroying my savings. But I do not practice covetousness. Just because someone else has gained the right to be exempt is not a reason in my book for me to envy them or try to deprive them of that right. THE TRAVESTY IS ON THE REST OF US, NOT ON THEM.