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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Who will pay for the $50 billion relief bill referred to in Post No. 20?
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The $50B ($5B/year for 10 years) relief package is certainly an exception as well as a previous $10B loan that was forgiven. Both of which are a result of onerous financial burden imposted by the administration in 2006. (ahem).
The current bill is to offset the requirements around retirement funding that no other company (except a few federal agencies) have to do. And have resulted in the PO almost running out of money (PO Fund is/was down to $9B)
The Bill was passed by a bipartisan vote of 342 to 92. So, BOTH parties agreed this was a good thing to do.
To the "junk mail". I don't like it either, but it is a method of some small (some not so small) companies advertise. And it provides a baseline income for the post office to offset the cost of delivering those birthday and Christmas cards to us from our grandkids.
My personal opinion is we should transition to a paperless society, but until then the post office is still the least expensive and most reliable method of sending snail mail.