re: #194 Lanzman

Yes. Costs should cover expenses. That’s how a free market works. Absent borrowing from the Treasury - if the Postal Service was FedEx, say - the USPS would have gone belly-up some time ago. That’s not a model to emulate no matter what kind of program you’re advocating. Mind you, it’s not entirely the Postal Service’s fault. They operate under the rules Congress imposes, after all, and must get approval for any rate increases. But they still operate in a very poor manner.

Would you say the same of the library system? That they’re incompetent? Because I bet their book fines fail to meet the costs of buying all those books…