How Bernie fought for veterans, becoming a case study in successful negotiation.

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7. The place I lived in right after I got married had been built

as low cost housing for veterans returning from World War II.

Relatively recently, Utah (yes, Utah) built free housing for homeless people, not necessarily veterans, that it provides for free or next to nothing because, as studies have shown, that costs society less than than the financial burden a homeless person places on society. (Yes, we do know that. As a society, we'd simply rather spend more to be punitive to people who probably should be in, at a minimum, halfway houses. Christian nation, my ass.)

Point of the above two paragraphs being: there is no excuse for allowing veterans to be homeless. Especially because the experience to which we subjected them probably caused or contributed to their homelessness.

I hate war, but I hate what we do to veterans. And, I believe that they ought to impose a war tax, as was done in World War II, to pay for all costs of the war, including veterans' benefits. Let's see how many endless wars that lead to more wars they get to start then.