The House has unanimously voted to double the death benefit given to families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the September eleventh terrorist attacks.
That would bring the death benefit to 12-thousand dollars. The bill, which passed 413-to-nothing, would also make the entire payment tax-free.
Texas Congressman Sam Johnson says it is "unconscionable" that a knock on the door from a military chaplain is followed "by a knock on the door from the tax man."
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