How to stop unnecessary wars
1. The president may send troops to combat for 30 calendar days. If by the 31st calendar day Congress has not approved the war, the troops come home.
2. All wars must have names. The word War must be in the name.
3. Only members of the Department of Defense may go to war zones. If Congress approves a war they will also approve authorizing the Defense Department to raise endstrength and the Selective Service System to draft troops.
4. There will be no draft exemptions for able bodied persons. Each county has a draft board. During wartime the members of these draft boards will be moved to distant states to keep them from deciding the banker's son is just too frail for war, and oh I need to borrow $500.000 for that new combine...And all adult children of elected officials would be conscripted on the first day of the war.
5. The Defense Department will review every company in America to determine how much of its production goes to the military, either directly (they make end items for the military) or indirectly (they make parts that go into end items made by other companies). Any company with roughly two-thirds of its revenue derived from the military (to keep a company from saying 64 percent isn't two-thirds) for the six months before the war starts will be called a defense contractor. During wartime defense contractors become part of the government. They won't pay taxes but they will operate on a break-even basis and no employee, officer or director of a defense contractor may receive total cash and non-cash compensation greater than that received by the commander of the 101st Airborne Division.
6. The war cannot be fought with borrowed money. Taxes will be raised to pay for war.
How many bullshit wars would be fought if congressmen had to raise their constituents' taxes, send their own children to the infantry and force their campaign contributors to take 90 percent pay cuts?
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