As to income taxes and the military draft, both were initiated unconstitutionally by Abraham Lincoln (but I repeat myself). The Lincoln era income tax was later struck down by SCOTUS as blatantly unconstitutional. Those who just could not imagine keeping their grubby acquisitive paws off other folks' income enacted the Sixteenth Amendment to arguably make such taxes "constitutional." Within just a few years (less than a decade) that first "constitutional" income tax was levied at rates of 80+% on upper bracket income. After all, it would have been unseemly to expect Woodrow Wilson to fund massive expansions of government naked power by sitting on street corners or in railroad stations selling pencils to passersby the old-fashioned honest way.
As to the military draft, if service personnel are being bossed around, which seems rather essential to the mission of the military, they are in servitude. That is legal but re-thinking is always in order. The military draft (or any other) is NOT voluntary by definition. We are supposed to be a free nation of free people.
If the American people are air-headed enough (or worse) to elect Obozo or, God forbid, the Arkansas Medusa, that does not mean that our young people get "drafted" into involuntary servitude to fight, be maimed and die for the kinds of causes over which Obozo and Her Satanic Majesty might want to go to war.
A truly voluntary military is a far stronger military than one made up of coerced malcontents.
Where did I say that I do not want a standing military?
I want a standing military, a military that is well paid, highly respected, feared by our enemies, well trained in the arts of war, utterly determined to exterminate our nation's enemies whenever they deserve it and with weaponry second to none and about half a galaxy beyond whatever comes second. It should have very substantial numbers of absolutely VOLUNTEER soldiers, sailors, marines, air force. Military service should be viewed as novelist Robert Heinlein viewed it, a far higher calling than civilian pursuits.
That military should be always ready to deploy, kill the enemy, break his things, and confiscate enough of his property to pay the entire tab and then get the hell out. Rinse and repeat as necessary. No nation building. No police duty.
Your apparent notion of a military made up of conscripts mainly from those of modest economic means and exempting the affluent from mandatory service is a prescription for building a Marxist revolutionary military that, one way or anothere, would seek a Marxist state. It would be Obozo's dream military and one eager to do his bidding in destroying all worth preserving. And, of course, our nightmare.
Not one member of our armed services has been "drafted" in the last forty years. It humbles the politicians and that is a good thing. We have, however, learned to abuse the Reserves and National Guard by requiring extensions of time for THEIR service. That too must end. They are the best qualified to fight wars. Now let the politicians grovel before them and beg them and cajole them whenever war seems necessary to the politicians. It is the service personnel at war and NOT the id-infested politicians who deserve respect and deference.
We are just getting soooooo inclusive: lavender queens, butches, lipsticks, trannys. In earlier days, men were exempted for flat feet, never mind for moral turpitude, and now we take in just about anyone from the weirdo-American community. Some also want to force women into such service. No thanks.
This "draft them" and "MAKE them fight when WE tell them to fight just BECAUSE WE tell them to fight" is the mindset that emerges from a shameful inclination to even allow women of child-bearing age to be in combat. What's next? Making little girls and old ladies and the physically and intellectually handicapped (differently abled???) do our fighting for us?
Perhaps I was not clear enough. I know we have a volunteer military and I am all in favor of that being the case. Registering for the draft is not in and of itself servitude. As long as the volunteer military continues to be able to man itself all is fine. The draft would only kick in if and when we fell short and extra troops were needed.
It is prudent to have this list since to attempt to start from scratch in a national emergency is a non starter and guaranteed to fail in todays world. I am saying everyone should be on this list and subject to a call up if necessary.