This USPS argument is a zombie that can't be killed. The postal service isn't designed to turn a profit, ffs.
If not for the postal service, fed ex and UPS would set their prices far higher and every other business would pay higher shipping costs. It is precisely because leaving this area of essential service to the "free market" would produce a drag on the economy that we don't.
The USPS is a subsidy for businesses and citizens, not a source of government revenue. This is by design.
As for socialism, that word has different meanings to different people, at different times, in different places. Social programs and post-market redistribution are what passes for socialism in the American vernacular.
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Kurplow ago
This USPS argument is a zombie that can't be killed. The postal service isn't designed to turn a profit, ffs.
If not for the postal service, fed ex and UPS would set their prices far higher and every other business would pay higher shipping costs. It is precisely because leaving this area of essential service to the "free market" would produce a drag on the economy that we don't.
The USPS is a subsidy for businesses and citizens, not a source of government revenue. This is by design.
As for socialism, that word has different meanings to different people, at different times, in different places. Social programs and post-market redistribution are what passes for socialism in the American vernacular.
Asking why that is can be a useful exercise.