SCUMBAGS, trying again to privatize postal service.
Many Vets work for the USPO too!
Money-Losing Post Office Said to Be Highway Fund Source
By Angela Greiling Keane and Derek Wallbank May 28, 2014 12:23 PM ET
Raising the U.S. gasoline tax is out as a way to shore up the Highway Trust Fund. So is taxing drivers based on the number of miles they clock. A plan to use taxes on companies’ overseas profits hasn’t gone anywhere.
So House Republicans are now turning to the money-losing U.S. Postal Service.
Unusual as it may sound, possible savings from revamping the agency’s operations are on the table as one way to patch highway funding, said two Republican legislative aides with knowledge of the talks.
“The long-term financial prospects of the Postal Service are fairly grim, so the idea that you could take money from that and not further exacerbate one problem in order to try to do a temporary Band-Aid on the other one borders on bizarre,” said Scott Lilly, a former staff director of the House Appropriations Committee. He’s now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a policy group aligned with Democrats.
more:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-28/money-losing-post-office-said-to-be-highway-fund-target.html
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