UPS and FedEx are bared from competing with the post office for mail delivery.
While the USPS is structured like a business, Congress often prevents it from actually operating like a private company, such as taking actions to reduce costs, improve efficiency, or innovate in other ways. The agency is also obligated by statute to provide mail services to all Americans, irrespective of where they live and the cost of serving them. Furthermore, it is required to deliver first-class mail at a uniform price throughout the nation.
While Congress imposes various costs and obligations on the USPS, it also protects it from competition. The USPS has a legal monopoly over first-class mail and standard mail (formerly called third-class mail). Thus, we have a postal system that encourages high costs and inefficiency, while preventing entrepreneurs from trying to improve postal services for Americans.
See the Postal Code of 1872 for further information on the USPS monopoly on mail delivery.
Don't you understand this decision? It's not about 'self-control' of the Internet backbone, it's about allowing municipalities or utility companies to offer services outside their service area, the locals don't want to run their own Internet backbone, they want someone else to come into their territory and offer service.
On Thursday, before it voted in favor of "net neutrality," the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to override state laws in Tennessee and North Carolina that have barred local governments and public utilities from offering broadband outside the areas where they have traditionally sold electricity.
With this:
"allowing communities to be the owners and stewards of their own broadband networks is a watershed moment that will serve as a check against the worst abuses of the cable monopoly for decades to come."
How does allowing the neighboring municipality or neighboring utility somehow allow "communities to be the owners and stewards of their own broadband networks"?
Think about it, don't react emotionally.
If I live in a community that is served electricity by power company A, and power company B in the neighboring community offers internet access that I want, allowing power company B to sell Internet access in the territory served by Power company A isn't 'self-ownership'... If the county next to me offers Internet access and now they can offer Internet service in my county, does my county now control the Internet backbone in our county or does the neighboring community?
Communities and public utilities can already offer service in thief own areas, this change would allow them to offer service in other communities, exchanging their old provider for another, neither owned or controlled by them.
I guess you have to believe that it will be better when the big power utility companies displace the big cable companies...
These companies follow the tax code as written/enforced. If you don't like the revenues the current tax code generates, rewrite the tax code - but don't be surprised if they seek out a new location with lower taxes.
Those corporations are investing $1.75 for every dollar they are asking the state of Washington to invest in the education for jobs in the state of Washington... Do you suggest those companies should invest in the education of Nevada residents instead, or should they just keep their money and let the lack of qualified graduates help them make the case for even more H-1B visas?
We fund the NIH to the tune of aprox. $100/head for every man, woman, and child in this country - $30 Billion in funding divided by a population of 300 Million...
That's a pretty hefty investment IMHO... How much per capita do other countries governments invest in medical health research?
I have HIV, more funding goes into 1 years worth of funding for my university sports team than has gone into HIV cure R&D funding over the past 5 years COMBINED.
Horseshit.
You are quite simply unequivocally wrong.
How many billions does your 'school team' get in funding each year?
Me thinks the issue is because there are cheaper alternatives to any new and improved antibiotic that are considered 'good enough'.
Let's say big pharma developed a new wonder antibiotic, and it cost 5x what generic antibiotics currently cost - who would pay 5x the price of generic alternatives? Would your insurance company? Would you pay it out of pocket? Most people defer their medicine choices to their insurance company because of cost, rarely do patients opt to pay for denied prescriptions out of their own pockets, they'll simply accept whatever alternative their insurance plan covers.
The first objections to Obama and the formation of the tea party were before he had even suggested doing anything.
Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC didn't start the Tea Party, it was started from the ashes of the Ron Paul campaign in December, 2007 - well before Obama was the presumptive candidate.
But hey, your fantastical 'because they hate brown people' claim is believed by millions of unquestioning Democrats... Probably the same Democrats that "just discovered" they have to pay a fine if they failed to get Obamacare coverage last year...
I realize how incompetent the government can be, but just how long is this environmental impact study going to take? It's been going on for at least 4 years that I'm aware of.
I think it's fair to say that if the government had found that letting the pipeline go forward would pose an exceptional threat to the environment they would have announced the threat and denied the pipeline. That they are still 'investigating' the environmental impact of the proposed pipeline speaks volumes to the lack of impact the pipeline would have on the environment.
I suspect that the reason(s) Obama doesn't just deny the application are simple: to deny the project would alienate organized labor (that stands in support of the thousands of construction jobs the pipeline means, just for the construction phase), and once denied, the Canadian firm can appeal the denial and probably has the right to demand a justification for the denial, and a Presidential 'I don't wanna' won't stand up in court.
By Your logic, in the beginning of automotive era (let's say around 1900) one could have said "most people aren't fit to drive a car". And in fact this sentence was most certainly true then given what the experience of driving one was.
And it is most certainly true today... (Have you seen the way people drive these days?)
Exxon-Mobil's embrace/support of a carbon tax on their products is likely nothing more nor nothing less than a simple concession that in no way diminishes their profits (as it will be a pass-thru tax, paid for by customers) and once taxed, will be free, nay, encouraged to sell as much oil as possible to generate profits for government.
That's what happened to so-called 'cancer sticks', AKA cigarettes - why the taxes on cigarettes are now earmarked for children's health care so "Light up! For the children..."
So would a law against armed robbery be considered racist if it disproportionately impacts poor minorities who, arrest records imply, are more likely to commit armed robbery. The law would equally apply to white millionaires, but 'we all know' that 'they' (rich white folks) aren't likely to commit armed robbery...
How about when they got a "corporate welfare" deal and dont pay property taxes?
And why do they get those deals? To get them to build their factory, warehouse, corporate office in that community bringing JOBS to the community... And the residents that work those jobs pay TAXES - unemployed people don't pay taxes...
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UPS and FedEx are bared from competing with the post office for mail delivery.
See the Postal Code of 1872 for further information on the USPS monopoly on mail delivery.
Don't you understand this decision? It's not about 'self-control' of the Internet backbone, it's about allowing municipalities or utility companies to offer services outside their service area, the locals don't want to run their own Internet backbone, they want someone else to come into their territory and offer service.
I can't quite reconcile this:
With this:
How does allowing the neighboring municipality or neighboring utility somehow allow "communities to be the owners and stewards of their own broadband networks"?
Think about it, don't react emotionally.
If I live in a community that is served electricity by power company A, and power company B in the neighboring community offers internet access that I want, allowing power company B to sell Internet access in the territory served by Power company A isn't 'self-ownership'... If the county next to me offers Internet access and now they can offer Internet service in my county, does my county now control the Internet backbone in our county or does the neighboring community?
Communities and public utilities can already offer service in thief own areas, this change would allow them to offer service in other communities, exchanging their old provider for another, neither owned or controlled by them.
I guess you have to believe that it will be better when the big power utility companies displace the big cable companies...
These companies follow the tax code as written/enforced. If you don't like the revenues the current tax code generates, rewrite the tax code - but don't be surprised if they seek out a new location with lower taxes.
Those corporations are investing $1.75 for every dollar they are asking the state of Washington to invest in the education for jobs in the state of Washington... Do you suggest those companies should invest in the education of Nevada residents instead, or should they just keep their money and let the lack of qualified graduates help them make the case for even more H-1B visas?
Don't students pay tuition? Shouldn't that help recoup the costs?
For every dollar the companies are asking the state to contribute, the companies are going to match with $1.75
You drop your H-1B visa requests.
We fund the NIH to the tune of aprox. $100/head for every man, woman, and child in this country - $30 Billion in funding divided by a population of 300 Million...
That's a pretty hefty investment IMHO... How much per capita do other countries governments invest in medical health research?
Horseshit.
You are quite simply unequivocally wrong.
How many billions does your 'school team' get in funding each year?
Right. Big pharma prefers the current billion dollar crap shoot that is the current regulatory approval process...
You have no idea how many potentially promising medicines Big Pharma abandons because they can't justify the billion dollar gamble.
WHY are antibiotics so unprofitable?
Me thinks the issue is because there are cheaper alternatives to any new and improved antibiotic that are considered 'good enough'.
Let's say big pharma developed a new wonder antibiotic, and it cost 5x what generic antibiotics currently cost - who would pay 5x the price of generic alternatives? Would your insurance company? Would you pay it out of pocket? Most people defer their medicine choices to their insurance company because of cost, rarely do patients opt to pay for denied prescriptions out of their own pockets, they'll simply accept whatever alternative their insurance plan covers.
Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC didn't start the Tea Party, it was started from the ashes of the Ron Paul campaign in December, 2007 - well before Obama was the presumptive candidate.
But hey, your fantastical 'because they hate brown people' claim is believed by millions of unquestioning Democrats... Probably the same Democrats that "just discovered" they have to pay a fine if they failed to get Obamacare coverage last year...
Should be "Who do you think votes on Oscars?"
It's not The People's Choice Awards, it's not a reflection of ticket sales...
How do you think votes on the Oscars?
I think it's fair to say that if the government had found that letting the pipeline go forward would pose an exceptional threat to the environment they would have announced the threat and denied the pipeline. That they are still 'investigating' the environmental impact of the proposed pipeline speaks volumes to the lack of impact the pipeline would have on the environment.
I suspect that the reason(s) Obama doesn't just deny the application are simple: to deny the project would alienate organized labor (that stands in support of the thousands of construction jobs the pipeline means, just for the construction phase), and once denied, the Canadian firm can appeal the denial and probably has the right to demand a justification for the denial, and a Presidential 'I don't wanna' won't stand up in court.
And it is most certainly true today... (Have you seen the way people drive these days?)
Most people don't 'need' to write ANY programs - ever...
Can we start with teaching 'everyone' to read and write?
How many tens of thousands of children graduate each year from public high schools as functional illiterates?
This reminds me of the groups that want to bring 'free' internet access to African villages that lack clean water and sanitation...
No.
Everyone doesn't need to learn every job skill.
With hundreds of thousands of unemployed computer workers in this country, why do we need to train more?
If we train 'everyone' to code, will we THEN stop importing countless thousands of foreign IT workers?
Exxon-Mobil's embrace/support of a carbon tax on their products is likely nothing more nor nothing less than a simple concession that in no way diminishes their profits (as it will be a pass-thru tax, paid for by customers) and once taxed, will be free, nay, encouraged to sell as much oil as possible to generate profits for government.
That's what happened to so-called 'cancer sticks', AKA cigarettes - why the taxes on cigarettes are now earmarked for children's health care so "Light up! For the children..."
So would a law against armed robbery be considered racist if it disproportionately impacts poor minorities who, arrest records imply, are more likely to commit armed robbery. The law would equally apply to white millionaires, but 'we all know' that 'they' (rich white folks) aren't likely to commit armed robbery...
Perhaps they fail to see the appeal of a career with diminishing pay Checks
And why do they get those deals? To get them to build their factory, warehouse, corporate office in that community bringing JOBS to the community... And the residents that work those jobs pay TAXES - unemployed people don't pay taxes...
Employers match 100% of the FICA and Social Security taxes each of their employees pay...
Employees benefit by being able to get to work.
Employers pay the bulk of healthcare costs for workers.
Employers MATCH every employee's payroll taxes and FICA taxes...