Young men distort their career and personal plans to take advantage of opportunities to postpone or avoid being drafted.... channeling young men into college. occupations. marriage or fatherhood is not in their best interests. nor those of society in general. It is these factors and others that indicate the great loss to society that the draft generates. One indirect method of gaging this in economic terms was stated in the Commissions report: Prospective inductees also incur costs in their efforts to escape conscriptioncosts which manifest themselves In a variety of ways such as additional college attendance. movement into occupations which carry deferments. immigration. etc. Indirect evidence suggests these costs may be 1.5 -times the implicit tax (i.e.. the taxinkind born by the draftee).. . . Thus for each $1.00 of taxinkind collected. an average of $2.50 is forgone by the public.
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