No, the military is not disproportionately poor

The justification for a military draft that you hear most often from the Left is that the military doesn’t represent the U.S. population in that it is disproportionately poor and minority.

Today, my MSNBC host Matt Miller (see video above), in the light of the killing of 16 Afghan civilians allegedly by a man under financial stress, made that argument, asking me if we needed a draft “to make sure that we’ve got shared sacrifice among all sectors of society, so that we’re not only putting some of the hardest working folks from humbler backgrounds into harms way like this.”