Do Federal/State/Local Governments Create Jobs?

Do Federal/State/Local Governments Create Jobs?


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Can anyone name any nonprofit companies/contractors that would like to take over USPS? Medicare? SS? Defense?
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

So, are you saying USPS is profitable?

I haven't got the faintest idea how you came to that conclusion.
 
Can anyone name any nonprofit companies/contractors that would like to take over USPS? Medicare? SS? Defense?
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

Name just ONE nonprofit company that would like to take over USPS. Just ONE...
 
Can anyone name any nonprofit companies/contractors that would like to take over USPS? Medicare? SS? Defense?
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

Name just ONE nonprofit company that would like to take over USPS. Just ONE...

Why does it have to be non-profit? Furthermore, I doubt they want to take over the USPS. They just want to deliver 1st class mail.
 
Can anyone name any nonprofit companies/contractors that would like to take over USPS? Medicare? SS? Defense?
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

Name just ONE nonprofit company that would like to take over USPS. Just ONE...

Why does it have to be non-profit? Furthermore, I doubt they want to take over the USPS. They just want to deliver 1st class mail.

Duh, the government is a nonprofit entity. Name one nonprofit private company that would like to take over USPS. Furthermore, if they couldn't make a profit - why would they want to?
 
Can anyone name any nonprofit companies/contractors that would like to take over USPS? Medicare? SS? Defense?
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

Name just ONE nonprofit company that would like to take over USPS. Just ONE...

Why does it have to be non-profit? Furthermore, I doubt they want to take over the USPS. They just want to deliver 1st class mail.

Duh, the government is a nonprofit entity. Name one nonprofit private company that would like to take over USPS. Furthermore, if they couldn't make a profit - why would they want to?

You still haven't explained why it has to be nonprofit. "because the government is nonprofit" is an idiotic justification.
 
Can anyone name any nonprofit companies/contractors that would like to take over USPS? Medicare? SS? Defense?
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

Name just ONE nonprofit company that would like to take over USPS. Just ONE...

Why does it have to be non-profit? Furthermore, I doubt they want to take over the USPS. They just want to deliver 1st class mail.

Duh, the government is a nonprofit entity. Name one nonprofit private company that would like to take over USPS. Furthermore, if they couldn't make a profit - why would they want to?

You still haven't explained why it has to be nonprofit. "because the government is nonprofit" is an idiotic justification.

Well, it wouldn't have to be nonprofit - but how could a for-profit private company do it cheaper than USPS without cutting wages and benefits - or dramatically raising mail rates? I expect the profits would come out of wages and benefits and jacked up mail rates. Also, don't forget that many veterans work for USPS - including many disabled veterans. Would the federal government (taxpayers) end up subsidizing their wages and benefits like for Walmart?
 
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

Name just ONE nonprofit company that would like to take over USPS. Just ONE...

Why does it have to be non-profit? Furthermore, I doubt they want to take over the USPS. They just want to deliver 1st class mail.

Duh, the government is a nonprofit entity. Name one nonprofit private company that would like to take over USPS. Furthermore, if they couldn't make a profit - why would they want to?

You still haven't explained why it has to be nonprofit. "because the government is nonprofit" is an idiotic justification.

Well, it wouldn't have to be nonprofit - but how could a for-profit private company do it cheaper than USPS without cutting wages and benefits - or dramatically raising mail rates? I expect the profits would come out of wages and benefits and jacked up mail rates. Also, don't forget that many veterans work for USPS - including many disabled veterans. Would the federal government (taxpayers) end up subsidizing their wages and benefits like for Walmart?

A liberal turd like you just can't imagine improving efficiency by doing things better. Consider the history of the Model T:

Henry Ford and the Model T A Case Study in Productivity Part 2 EconEdLink
  • In 1914, 13,000 workers at Ford made 260,720 cars. By comparison, in the rest of the industry, it took 66,350 workers to make 286,770 cars.
  • Between 1914 and 1916, the company's profits doubled—from $30 million to $60 million.

Ford was producing cars at a record-breaking rate. In the early days of Model T production, completing one vehicle required 12 hours. By 1914, vehicles rolled out of the Highland Park Plant at the rate of one every 93 minutes. In 1920, Ford turned out one car every minute, and one out of every two automobiles in the world was a Model T. At one point, the pace picked up to one Ford being manufactured every 24 seconds!
 
Robots will probably be delivering our mail before long. Will they be government robots or Wall Street robots?
 
Can anyone name any nonprofit companies/contractors that would like to take over USPS? Medicare? SS? Defense?
There are plenty of companies that would be happy to get into the mail delivery business. The USPS brings in $70 billion in revenue every year. Only a fool would believe no one wants a piece of that.

Name just ONE nonprofit company that would like to take over USPS. Just ONE...

You really hate capitalism, don't you?
 
what!.....you are here arguing about the PO and you have no idea why a Universal PO was developed by Franklin and company?.....there is reason for that Bri...they have been doing this for 200 plus years?....

The rationalizations they came up with aren't important. Whatever they are, they are bogus. There is no justification for having government provide a service that the private sector can easily provide.

Sure there is

If the government can do a task better and at a lower cost to the taxpayer, We the People benefit

There is no reason the taxpayers should have to provide profits to the private sector



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ROFL! When has government done anything at lower cost than the private sector?

And government getting out of the way is not "providing profits to the private sector." Commerce isn't an activity that government allows individuals to participate in, at least not in a free country.

Happens all the time

Wrong.

Lets look at the example of Garbage Collection. Some municipalities do it themselves, others contract it out

Option A: Town buys a couple of trucks and hires crews to man them
Option B: Town elects for private companies to do garbage collection

You left out the third option: Each customer contracts with whatever waste disposal company they like.

The town has the advantage of not having to pay taxes on their buildings, vehicles or facilities. They are also operating on a non-profit basis.
The private company is primarily looking to make a profit off the taxpayer. They must pay taxes on facilities, vehicles and profit

Why should the taxpayer feel obligated to provide a profit making enterprise to the private sector?

The taxpayers don't "provide" diddly squat. In fact, as you pointed out, the waste disposal company has to pay a lot of taxes to the city, the county and the state just to stay in business. The idea that industries are something the government doles out to its chosen toadies at its discretion is the essence of crony capitalism.

By its very nature Government can be more cost effective than the private sector. They have an advantage of low management salaries, running not for profit, free land, no taxes to pay

That is why the private sector whines like little bitches when the government directly competes with them

The taxpayer pays the penalty
 
The rationalizations they came up with aren't important. Whatever they are, they are bogus. There is no justification for having government provide a service that the private sector can easily provide.

Sure there is

If the government can do a task better and at a lower cost to the taxpayer, We the People benefit

There is no reason the taxpayers should have to provide profits to the private sector



.

ROFL! When has government done anything at lower cost than the private sector?

And government getting out of the way is not "providing profits to the private sector." Commerce isn't an activity that government allows individuals to participate in, at least not in a free country.

Happens all the time

Wrong.

Lets look at the example of Garbage Collection. Some municipalities do it themselves, others contract it out

Option A: Town buys a couple of trucks and hires crews to man them
Option B: Town elects for private companies to do garbage collection

You left out the third option: Each customer contracts with whatever waste disposal company they like.

The town has the advantage of not having to pay taxes on their buildings, vehicles or facilities. They are also operating on a non-profit basis.
The private company is primarily looking to make a profit off the taxpayer. They must pay taxes on facilities, vehicles and profit

Why should the taxpayer feel obligated to provide a profit making enterprise to the private sector?

The taxpayers don't "provide" diddly squat. In fact, as you pointed out, the waste disposal company has to pay a lot of taxes to the city, the county and the state just to stay in business. The idea that industries are something the government doles out to its chosen toadies at its discretion is the essence of crony capitalism.

By its very nature Government can be more cost effective than the private sector. They have an advantage of low management salaries, running not for profit, free land, no taxes to pay

That is why the private sector whines like little bitches when the government directly competes with them

The taxpayer pays the penalty

Exactly! Private healthcare insurers can't compete with the lower costs of government. That is why we need universal single payer.
 
Some things are better run by government, notwithstanding the meme of the crazy right wing who believe almost everything ought to be privatized, and all government regulation is a problem.
 

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