U.S. military soldiers should be paid more than what they are already paid. An E-1 soldier only gets paid at least 24,000 dollars. 20,000 dollars goes towards taxable portion and 4,000 is a non-taxable portion 30% of the taxable portion which is 6,000 dollars they will only have 18,000 dollars left to spend. This is not enough money for someone who is risking their life for our country. The navy also gets an unfair amount of pay E-5 navy men get 28,000 dollars in taxable portion and 4,000 in the non-taxable portion they will only get paid 25,000 dollars. These people are risking their lives for our country and the government is only paying them a small amount of money. Then what we think they usually get the people in the military should at least get $50,000 instead 18,000