please state the reasons why rich people will not get drafted if there was a mandatory milatary draft?

Question

Me and my friend was arguing one day about if they would get draft i think yes because then the U,S.A. is like all fair and everyone is treated the same plz give me the reasons why not

wat about the presidents kids and other ppl in politics?

Answer 1

The current MSSA (Military Selective Service Act) makes it nearly impossible for the rich to avoid serving if there is a draft. Almost all of the loopholes from the Vietnam era have been closed. Everyone (well, like 96%) of US males of draft age are listed in a giant computer database. You can't escape by "forgetting on purpose" to register (which is a felony, BTW) becaue the SSS gets data from almost every agency with a computer, so if you have a driver's license you are in the system, (and for about 35 states, you consented to SSS registration when you got your license at 16!). So, point #1, everyone is in there.

Point #2 - there is no way out. The computer picks based on a lottery that is based on birthday and nothing else. Then you get your notice. You can file a claim for exemption or deferment, but this is decided by a local board in your community. These are well trained, unpaid volunteers, who follow very clear guidelines. Unless you find a way to bribe all of them, you can't rig your case. Also, given the guidelines, you can't really fake it. There are only a few "judgemental claims" like Hardship and Conscientious Objector and Minister, and these also have pretty clear guidelines. There is no longer any student deferment. If you get drafted as a student, you can finish the term (or the year if you are a senior) and then you go, period.

The draft boards are supervised by an area office, so they would notice anything funny going on, and also during a draft, there will be a lot of public scrutiny. If all the rich kids or even one rich kid in a county got a questionable deferrment for a fake "hardship", someone would complain, and this would be investigated by the DOJ, and if there is fraud, you are looking at 5 year/250,000$ felony.

SO, while not perfect, the current system is very fair and rich people absolutely will get drafted (they can't prevent that), and they should have a very hard time gaming the system with money or influence because of the way it is set up.

Answer 2

The President doesn't declare war, Congress does. Congress would never support a mandatory draft. That's almost a guarantee of future American aggression and a sure sign of a drift towards a state dominated by military thinking. Also we have to face the ugly truth that a volunteer army is in place so as to protect the future doctors, lawyers, engineers and scientists of America from being put into a hail of bullets instead. Grim thought, but true.

Answer 3

Because they ARE the rich, and we live in a plutocracy. Anyone who believes that the USA is a democracy, also believes in Santa, since we can only vote for our local despots-- the People can t collectively overrule the government ITSELF.

And NO, that s NOT "to uphold the constitutional republic against mob rule," it s so that THE RICH can rule over the many through organized politics, just like the mafia-- but with a LOT more power and money.

It would take a SERIOUS effort for the majority of the US population to take a vote and overrule the government; but according to "mob rule" morons, democracy would mean that EVERYONE votes on EVERY LAW.
And that s so stupid that it s retarded. Democracy is perfectly compatible with a republican form of government, if the People can OVERRULE the republic at will; but if they can t, then they don t CONSENT to it, and therefore it s an OLIGARCHY.
And that s what the USA is now, ever since LIncoln.

Answer 4

rich kids parents will keep them in collage forever. They will keep grinding away. plus get a few strings with senotor and congressman to get stateside jobs. during vietnam Cliton stay his butt in collage until the war was over. Bush got into the national guard and stayed stateside. Are two strong examples. We all do play by the same rules but I coundn't afford so keeping sending my kid to collage for 8 years work on stupid basket weaving degrees just to get a draft deferment.

It just like the legal system. A rich person get the best lawyer in the country a poor person is stuck with his public defedent. Justice is equll as in judge jury but one lawyer is better and argueing the case and finding loop hole the other is getting by.

Answer 5

If you think everyone is treated the same you need to wake up. The poor in the US get NOTHING. You can pay your taxes every year, support your country in everything it does, never criticise a president from the opposition party - be the 'model' citizen, yet if you get ill and you don't have insurance you're screwed. If you're rich then you can get the best private education - you can rely on contacts that your family members possibly decades ago made to secure jobs. The US is full of privilege for the well-off. I don't think it's too hard to stretch that to rich children either skipping the draft or getting a cushy desk job because of their or their parents' schmoozing, or making "donations" to the "right" cause.

Answer 6

During the Vietnam draft the sons of wealthy parents could access many deferments like college education that poor people couldn't afford, or paying off physicians to claim any number of medical deferments.

WWII was the last war that saw mass involvement of the rich but only because deferments were few and the cause was nearly universally seen as patriotic.

Another war of choice will produce rich kids choosing not to serve and getting away with it.

Answer 7

There are numerous people who would make fun of the prospect of altering their fates. This is because it believes that no one gets more that what is put in his destiny.

Answer 8

ask a Vietnam vet who went and who didn't . in colonial times $300.00 would buy a way out of draft . see draft riots of N.Y. it was the only time the navy fired on its own citizens on U.S. soil .

Answer 9

they can be drafted just like the poor and middle class.

Answer 10

They'll get drafted too.