HALFWAY TO CONCORD » VFW http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com Contra Costa News, Politics, Business, Events Calendar Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Assemblyman Houston promotes tax relief for disabled veterans http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com/assemblyman-houston-promotes-tax-relief-for-disabled-veterans/ http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com/assemblyman-houston-promotes-tax-relief-for-disabled-veterans/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:00:51 +0000 admin http://halfwaytoconcord.com/?p=1155 California State Assemblyman Guy Houston, (D-15), announced before a packed house, this past that he would soon be introducing legislation that would provide a full property tax exemption for all disabled U.S. veteran home owners in California. The current exemption of $100,000 of home value was passed in 1930, so the spirit of the law was to really take care of disabled vets, but $100,000 in California now is a pittance. Disabled veteran and Brentwood resident Bill Klug, (2nd Lt. US Army) researched the old statute and presented his findings to Houston.

Guy Houston stated, Saturday night, at the Marine Corps League crab feed, held at the Brentwood Veterans Hall, that “our disabled veterans have already paid their taxes, in service to their nation, on battlefields around the world, and that it (introducing and working to see this legislation passed) was just the right thing to do.”

The announcement was met with a thunderous applause by veterans present from all branches, from WWII, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and the War Against Terrorism, as well as civilian supporters. Mr. Klug is active in the VFW, and is a veteran of Gulf War 1, and Operation Desert Storm.

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