By Leo Shane III and Joe Gould
No matter how much ground President Obama’s annual State of the Union speech covers, the commander in chief wonât be able to address every military and veterans issue that outside advocates want highlighted.
Here are a few topics that key community experts would like to hear mentioned but are unlikely to make the cut.
Benjamin Friedman, defense research fellow at the Cato Institute:
After almost 15 years, canât we pay for wars at least partly through the normal appropriation process rather than a 
special overseas contingency operation fund? Under a normal appropriation process, assuming the budget caps stay in place, Congress would have to fund wars through offsets. That process would force more consideration of tradeoffs and greater scrutiny and oversight. In theory, Obama supports such a change, but has done nothing to make it happen. A war tax would have similar effects.
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