O’Rourke proposes ‘war tax’ to support veterans

Published June 24, 2019 9:20pm ET



Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke announced Monday his four-part plan to take care of America’s veterans.

The plan focuses on ending the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan, modernizing the Veterans Affairs Department, fighting access-to-care discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation, and the creation of a Veterans Health Care Trust Fund financed through a “war tax.”

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