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The post office, alone of any government entity, must pre-fund pensions of persons not yet born. Congress is also pretending that the Post Office must be a sel
by zero_intp 14y ago
The post office, alone of any government entity, must pre-fund pensions of persons not yet born. Congress is also pretending that the Post Office must be a self-sufficient organization. This is despite the fact that running the post office is a Constitutional requirement, profitable or no.
- vonmoltke 14y agoRunning a post office is not a Constitutional requirement. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 states, "The Congress shall have Power To establish Post Offices and post roads."[1] This is not a requirement to do so. In fact, if you look at the case law behind this clause, in the beginning many questioned if the clause even gave Congress the authority to establish a federal post office or merely regulate the establishment of third party post offices. [1] http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-1/39-post-office.html http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-1/39-post-offi...