[CrackMonkey] FUQ, slavery is back

[Overlord of Minnesota and Protector of the Dakotas]

commence  Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu  quotation:
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 05:56:31 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jdub at perkypants.org>  said:
> 
> > > Well perhaps it is but it's an expensive way of educating youngsters and I
> > > wouldn't like to have to pay the tax to pay for it on top of everything
> > > else.
> > 
> > Almost every army-reserve or compulsory military service system offers
> > tax-free pay.
> 
> Which means all of us *non*-conscripts have to pay tax to cover their salary,
> AND pay *more* tax to cover the deficit caused by their tax-free status.

Then why don't you join the army?

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