Comments on: How Not To Fix The Post Office http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4355 Eric Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:09:58 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4355 The US Postal Service is a corporation wholly owned by the Federal government. It is required to be self funded. In recent years the USPS has actually managed to not require any tax subsidies (although there are other indirect subsidies involved). If the USPS is required to continue to fund all pensions and military credits, as it is now, a rate hike will be coming in the near future. Mass mailers will be impacted by this. By transferring the incurred liability for military service to the Treasury, these rate hikes will be delayed. This is the real impetus for this recommendation.

Two bad things here. First, taxpayers will be partially providing direct subsidy to the USPS again. Second, mass mailers will be getting taxpayer assistance to keep their rates low. This is par for the course in our current government, of course.

Now, to answer VRB. The issue is not whether postal employees should have pensions, or not. The issue is whether mail services should be provided in a free market, or not. .

]]> By: VRB http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4354 VRB Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:55:21 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4354 …why shouldn’t they provide pensions?

I wish there was a preview comments. As you can see, even though I reread before I submitted the comment, my mind stayed blank.

]]> By: VRB http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4353 VRB Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:52:18 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4353 Isn’t the government, the Postal workers employer? If it is, why would they be the to provide pensions.
Do you mean that no company should provide any pension plan? I have no idea what Ford or General Motors does.

]]> By: howto » Blog Archive » How Not To Fix The Post Office - Liberty Papers http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4351 howto » Blog Archive » How Not To Fix The Post Office - Liberty Papers Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:12:49 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4351 [...] … Let the market decide how to price these services. Get the government out of the business of providing pensions to Postal Workers. … Source http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/ [...]

]]> By: John Newman http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4287 John Newman Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:16:11 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/12/11/how-not-to-fix-the-post-office/#comment-4287 I’m with you Doug, but Congress will not allow competition. Look at what happened last time it was tried: http://www.lysanderspooner.org/STAMP2.htm

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