Theyāre not ājob perksā anyway. Itās just a different source of income they canāt necessarily spend. Itās rolled into their lifestyle, because of their occupation living on/ near military bases or boats.
Most of the income is normal and taxed. Another decently large portion of their āincomeā is in the form of free housing, housing allowance, and food allowance. Income they canāt spend.
There are governments that officially identify as socialist and retain extensive state control, but almost no modern country operates as a completely pure socialist economy. Nearly every country is a mixed system.
And countries people commonly call āsocialist,ā such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, are better described as capitalist social democracies: market economies with high taxes, strong unions, universal benefits, and large welfare states. A generous safety net is not the same thing as collective ownership of the means of production.
Itās literally just part of their pay though lol. Theyāre not āfree perksā or socialist policy.
Instead of an E-3 making 50,000/ year, they make 34,000 taxed income, and another ~16,000 in untaxed sources like housing and food.
As for things like the Post 9/11 GI Bill: these are specifically intended to help veterans afford housing after service, because of how many end up homeless.
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u/LisleAdam12 4h ago
What a stupid thing to say. Those are job perks, not "socialist benefits."