What direct benefit is there from not having any US tariffs? How much money would we save from the standpoint of consumers and businesses and what industries or businesses would suffer?
As far as I can tell, tariffs are simply a tool that are sometimes used effectively and sometimes ineffectively. Getting rid of them for only ideological reasons sounds silly.
We can, today if we wish, not use tariffs with those countries that do not use them with us.
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If you think FedEx and UPS can add to the efficiency of the USPS system without causing a big increase in gasoline usage and costs, I have no problem with that. I do have a problem if FedEx and UPS cherry pick the USPS routes and ONLY pick up and deliver where they can make a profit.
Do FedEx and UPS want to deliver a single piece of junk mail to a rural address at the same cost as delivering it to an urban address? UPS will, for example, charge more for delivering to a residence than to a business. They does not happen with mail.
If I remember correctly, UPS also charges for pickup from either a residence or a business. The USPS does not do that with the mail.
What efficiencies (better service/lower costs) will adding FedEx and UPS to the firstclass mail system provide us? How will we choose between the three in sending a letter home to Mom? Will we have 3 sets of trucks going through the neighborhood everyday? Will we have 3 sets of post offices, 3 sets of stamps?
How will that work from a practical perspective that would be an improvement over what we have today?
I wasn't Fred Smith's Professor.
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No, you use the word entitlement as a pejorative. SS is still a mandatory insurance program that works so well that right wingers want to steal it and line their own pockets with all that money.
Yes, I use the term right wingers as a pejorative.
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So, you object to my SS dollars today paying your SS benefits today (even though you have paid into SS while you were working and I will get mine when I am older) but you do not object to my tax dollars today paying your child's (or grandchild's) education costs today. As I said, this is why libertarians can never close the loop on an argument. This is wishy-washy.
" And there is a difference between a transfer (like social security benefit payments), and providing a service. Public schooling is providing a service."
So, if SS payments were not paid directly to a recipient but were sent to, say, a grocery store (gas station, landlords, etc.) to provide SERVICES (and products) to said recipient that would be ok with you? |
