Not if it generates billions of tax revenue from the private sector.
What are you talking about? How can operating the post office at a loss add billions in tax revenue to the private sector?
Closing the post office is what would increase tax revenue. All those businesses that crop up to fill the niche that the post office is currently monopolizing will add tons of tax revenue.
The post office adds millions of private sector jobs to the economy. They in turn generate tax revenue. I listed some of them above.
Privatizing it would end up creating a monopoly since multiple companies could not provide the same service to every address in the country.
The jobs that create the 100 billion pieces of junkmail alone generate billions in tax revenue.
Nice cop out. If you did list them, I didn't see it the first time, nor did I see it when I reread the thread just now.
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10) Finally back to junk mail - Think of all the trees that will be saved if the US Postal service dies.
Wood pulp is a crop just like corn. The trees are planted just to make paper, like Christmas trees are a crop grown special for that purpose. They are renewable. Tree farming employs thousands of people. Eliminate paper and the trees would never be planted so none would be saved and lumber jack jobs would be lost. Not to mention the paper manufacturers, printers, designers, artists, ink makers, printing equipment manufacturers, and the envelope stuffers. Also the vehicle builders, post office builders, sorting machine builders, maintenance people, would be out of work.
Taxes from these people would be lost. I don't know how many people are employed directly and indirectly by having a postal service but that number must be in the millions. I would guess taxes from all those people would make up for the loss incurred by the post office.
Eliminating the post office would cost millions of private jobs outside of the government employees.
The postal service does create private sector jobs. Just to create the 100 billion pieces of junk mail means millions of jobs and tax revenue.
The postal service does create private sector jobs. Just to create the 100 billion pieces of junk mail means millions of jobs and tax revenue.
The postal service does create private sector jobs. Just to create the 100 billion pieces of junk mail means millions of jobs and tax revenue.
Yeah, we get all of our bills and medical statements, etc., by mail. Still gotta have it, even if the price goes up.
Still, I love Tucker's idea. My husby gets so appoplectic over the sheer volume of junk in our mailbox. He bought a custom stamp that says, "Refused. Return to Sender." in bright red ink. He stacks up the junk on the kitchen table, gets this crazed look in his eyes, and wails madly away, cackling maniacally, then dashes back to dump them in the outgoing mail slot. *sigh* I know, I know. But it's the only orgasm the old guy gets any more, so what the hell.