Taxpayer-Funded Military Worship
May 10, 2015
It turns out that the National Guard has paid NFL teams millions of dollars to honor veterans on their Jumbotrons. That is millions of taxpayer dollars. Over the past three years, the Guard has paid $5.3 million to 11 different NFL teams.
A reader makes a great point: “Doesn’t anyone question why the military can use taxpayer money to pay the NFL to honor veterans, while at the same time veterans must rely on organizations like the ‘Wounded Warrior Project’ to help pay the expenses of those severely injured while in the government’s employ? Could you imagine the Government and public outcry if people in the auto industry received such horrible injuries and the company refused to take care of them?”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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