Not so fast. Overlook the depravity of forcing young people to die in battle as a means of pressuring their elders to avoid dubious wars. The draft – by staffing the military with conscripts paid less than the wages they’d earn in a volunteer force – in fact relieves most taxpayers of much of the costs of war by foisting a disproportionate share of those costs onto underpaid draftees. With much of the costs of war thus hidden from politicians and taxpayers, the likely result is more frequent war and greater casualties.
via How About the State Conscripting Only Those Who Call for Conscription?.