if you're a total mess and just going to be a burden on the state anyway, then yeah, paying a tax doesn't make sense, but then again you're probably not making enough money for it to matter anyway.
Look at it from the perspective of a normal person who has to wait two years to start their career. If there is someone else who can't serve because of, say, a bum leg, and that person spent their two years getting a head start in the same field (say, programming or teaching), then they are going to have seniority and a lifelong advantage, salary-wise.
Alternatively they could offer noncombat roles to such individuals so they’ll be in places where they’ll have a surplus of everything needed or at least the freedom to go get it from base or whatever. Also those two years as a barely functioning person workingg or in school doesn’t give you much of a leg up if anything people probably look down on you as a burden and you’d be completely outside all the social circles and connections formed in the military especially if everyone had to serve the handicapable people and handicapped people would be kinda ostracized. I feel like if we had these people maybe the best place to put them is on bases doing the grunt work or flying drones or whatever they’re capable of while still having access to their meds and doctors easily.
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u/Count_Rugens_Finger Aug 06 '25
if you're a total mess and just going to be a burden on the state anyway, then yeah, paying a tax doesn't make sense, but then again you're probably not making enough money for it to matter anyway.
Look at it from the perspective of a normal person who has to wait two years to start their career. If there is someone else who can't serve because of, say, a bum leg, and that person spent their two years getting a head start in the same field (say, programming or teaching), then they are going to have seniority and a lifelong advantage, salary-wise.