Sue Lowden Still Defending her Death Tax on Vets

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Sue Lowden Still Defending her Death Tax on Vets
by: Richard Allen Smith
Thu Jun 03, 2010 at 14:12:03 PM EDT

Me yesterday:

Former Nevada State Senator Sue Lowden (R-NV), who is currently running for the United State Senate in Nevada must not think much of Veterans. While serving in the State Senate, Lowden championed a bill that would have taxed Veterans for the own burials in Veterans cemeteries.

The sensible thing for Sue Lowden to do would be to admit she was wrong. Absent that, she should probably just keep her mouth shut about it. But, obviously, sense avoids Sue Lowden as yesterday she was still defending her radical anti-Vet agenda:

On a hastily arranged conference call with reporters Wednesday, Lowden defended her decision to propose a $100 fee on noncombat veterans seeking to be buried in military cemeteries when she chaired the state Senate Taxation Committee.

"I had to balance our state budget," she explained. "Part of the balancing process was charging a nominal fee to certain noncombat vets in order to be buried in our state's veterans cemeteries."

Wow, Sue Lowden. When you decided that it was your single-handed duty to balance the budget for the State of Nevada, you thought the best way to do that was on the backs of dead Veterans?

Of course, This might not be as heartless and disrespectful to Veterans and their families as it seems. In Sue Lowden's world chickens are an appropriate currency, so I guess the families of deceased Veterans could just pay their death tax in live stock if they couldn't come up with the tax.