Petition to Establish a “Veteran Tax” Ensuring Full 100% Rate Payments for All U.S. Veterans

 

To:

 

The President of the United States
The Senate and House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs
The United States Congress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Background & Justification

 

 

 

“In 2024, 17.6 million men and women were veterans, accounting for about 7 percent of the civilian non‐institutional population age 18 and over.” 

“The number of military veterans in the United States in 2023 was 15.8 million, representing 6.1 percent of the civilian population age 18 and over.” 

 

 

 

Breach of Good Faith:
For decades, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has routinely delayed, underpaid, or denied disability benefits, inflicting financial hardship, homelessness, and psychological trauma upon those who served. Veterans like Ian XIlyana have waited seven years for benefits they earned—forcing them into impoverished neighborhoods, exposing them to harassment and hate crimes, and denying them the means to secure safe housing and healthcare.
Moral and Legal Obligation:
Disability benefits are not gifts but earned entitlements—compensation for the loss of life, liberty, limbs, dignity, and honor endured in service to this nation. To withhold or delay these payments constitutes torture and betrayal of the American promise to “support and care for [its] own” (U.S. Constitution, Preamble).
Systemic Failure:

Community‐based vouchers have been used as pretexts to isolate veterans in underfunded housing amid crime and neglect.
Cases of Military Sexual Trauma (MST), such as the abuse by a Master Sergeant at Lackland AFB, go uninvestigated. Subsequent medical appointments routinely ignore legal affidavits regarding staffing preferences.
Bureaucratic backlogs compel veterans to waste hours on phone calls and travel, compounding their hardships.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Petition Demands

 

 

 

Enact a Federal “Veteran Tax”:

Impose a modest, broadly‑based excise tax (e.g., 0.5%–1%) on all commercial transactions and transportation services nationwide.
All revenues to be deposited into a dedicated Veterans Compensation Fund.

Guaranteed 100% Rate Payments:

Every American veteran, regardless of service‐connected disability rating, will receive a full 100% disability payment.
Payments commence within 30 days of application and are retroactive to the date of claim.

Abolish the Current VA Structure:

Dissolve the Department of Veterans Affairs in its present form and replace it with a streamlined Veterans Compensation and Support Agency focused solely on benefits distribution, oversight of service member transition, and rapid response to MST and other urgent needs.

Enhanced Oversight & Accountability:

Establish an independent Veterans Compensation Ombudsman empowered to audit claims, mandate investigations of MST, and enforce binding timelines for benefit adjudication.
Mandatory quarterly reports to Congress on fund utilization, claim backlogs, and veteran satisfaction metrics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victim Impact Statement

 

 

 

“To get groceries, I have to spend more money than I have to avoid other Americans who would rather fondle the genitalia of a Handicapped person on a bus or call them a fag while assaulting them.”

– Ian XIlyana, USAF Veteran denied benefits for seven years

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call to Action

 

 

 

We, the undersigned, demand immediate legislative action to restore honor, dignity, and financial security to the 15–18 million American veterans who have sacrificed for this country. No more delay. No more broken promises. It is time to fund our heroes with the respect—and the 100% compensation—they deserve.