Abraham Lincoln imposed a draft, a move that provoked riots in New York and other cities.
Imposing a draft on the military I served in would harm it grievously for years.
To control costs and avoid imposing a draft, the US resorted to a parallel army of private contractors, numbering 100,000 people or more at the height of the war.
During the Civil War, President Lincoln imposed a draft which provoked riots in New York and many other cities.
If our leadership had called on the same sacrifices to fight terrorism that Americans made in World War II, such as imposing a draft, rationing, and increasing taxes to fund the anti-terrorist efforts, Americans would have gone for it.
Even if the agency were to decide to impose a standard, drafting and adopting it would take months.
The outlines of the deal had been clear for more than a week, but it was not clear until today that the Assembly and Senate would agree on the details, and head off a panel of federal judges in Manhattan who had threatened to impose a plan drafted by a special master if the Legislature did not act soon.
But 3 years ago the Obama administration shelved a draft proposal to impose a lower standard, suggesting that achieving it would be too economically onerous at a time when the United States was recovering from a severe recession.
Representative John B. Larson, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, has circulated a draft bill that would impose "a per-unit tax on the carbon-dioxide content of fossil fuels, beginning at a rate of $15 per metric ton of CO2 and increasing by $10 each year".
