In the real world, taking a weapon like tariffs away from our government unilaterally isn't a good idea.
Removing the weapon may make it harder to pry open other markets, but it provides enough of a direct benefit that it might be worthwhile anyway.
Or you could just open your market to anyone who will open their market. If they put tariffs and barriers in place so will you.
That is wishy-washy.
That isn't much an argument against anything, esp. because your just boldly asserting it "wishy-washy", rather than backing up your claim, or more importantly directly showing the point raised is incorrect.
The USPS does its route 6 days a week which is different from FedEx and UPS getting their routes depending on what needs to be delivered to what specific address.
So what?
The USPS does its route 6 days a week because there are things on its route to pick up or deliver 6 days a week.
I suspect if they did, the price would go up for everyone as you have multiple trucks (esp with gas prices these days) running the same routes. I don't see any efficiencies there.
And the founder of Fed-Ex supposedly got a poor mark on his business school writeup on his idea, because it was so totally unrealistic.
Even if the companies can't or don't want to compete (neither of which is a reasonable assumption), that doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to.
Actually, SS is less of an entitlement program than a public education.
Social Security is an entitlement by the definition of both the normal world entitlement (in the sense of legal entitlement), and the government term of art "entitlement". Public education may be and entitlement bu the former but not the later.
At least SS recipients generally pay into the program (there are some survivors benefits) and generally receive the money back as seniors.
No, they pay taxes, that tax money is used to pay benefits to someone else, just like with other government benefits. Than later they may get benefits, from someone else's tax dollars.
And there is a difference between a transfer (like social security benefit payments), and providing a service. Public schooling is providing a service. Services aren't automatically better, but arguments specifically about transfers don't apply to well. You can pretend they are the same thing, but that doesn't change reality. |
