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...assistant Government professor and an ROTC spokesman disagreed last night on the feasibility of John Kenneth Galbraith's suggestion to alter the present structure of the Armed Forces...
...letter to the Sunday New York Times, Galbraith had suggested that a paid volunteer force might replace the draft system. He felt that the draft was based on obsolete assumptions, chief of which was that a military power must be produced cheaply...
John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, and a Stevenson speech-writer, yesterday attacked the assumptions upon which the draft is based and suggested new ways of providing an armed force...
...letter to the Sunday New York Times, Galbraith termed obsolete the concept that "military manpower must be produced cheaply." Since the United States can now afford the amount necessary to pay a volunteer force, the draft survives, in Galbraith's opinion, "principally as a device by which we use compulsion to get young men to serve at less than the market rate...
...Galbraith cited the "highly regressive arrangement" of the present draft, charging that the system shifts the burden of military service from the "well-to-do taxpayer, who benefits from lower taxes, to the impecunious young draftee." This arrangement would not be tolerated in any other area, he felt...