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...Torricelli and Hart have this idea, you see. They call it a "universal national service." Though they haven't specified the particulars, this national service would conscript men and women of a certain youthful age. Once drafted (they shrewdly avoid using that word), we would choose either military or non-military service. And then we would work for about a year for the government, free of charge...
...Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Co.), who have proposed a mandatory draft of all 18 year olds into civil or military service--No thanks...
...Hart and Torricelli sound pretty serious about this, so stop laughing. They have sponsored bills before their respective governmental bodies that would create a commission to study the feasibility of a national service. Writing in The New York Times last April, Hart and Torricelli pronounced, "We can do more for our young people by asking more from them...
...hope Hart and Torricelli's efforts won't be watered down into a wimpy voluntary national service along the lines of the Peace Corps. That would defeat the purpose of a national service in the first place. Like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would be very popular in its first few years, but eventually the idealism will fade, as it does with most voluntary efforts. And like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would attract the people who need it least--the open-minded, civic-minded charitable ones who work at Phillips Brooks House. The people who need...
...primary reason for the plan, Torricelli said Tuesday night at a speech at the Kennedy School, is to make sure our social programs don't stagnate because of lack of money. There is no constituency left to raise taxes, Torricelli explained, so America would substitute a draft of five million 18 year olds for a tax on all Americans...