Thomas Sowell, another right-wing fanatic, has a new column today about the reasons we need to get rid of the post office.
Now generally, we see these pious dumbasses railing over how much they love the constitution and if something is not listed in the constitution, its unconstitutional. Today he'll make an exception, because maybe he doesn't realize that the postal service is constitutionally mandated under Article One, section 8. But you must give Mr. Sowell some leeway, he's an idiot and he has a typewriter.
My favorite part of his rant, though, is the crux of his argument, that no other company is allowed to carry mail.
And why not, you may ask?
"Moreover, the government makes it illegal for anyone else to put anything into your mail box, even though you bought the mail box, and it is your property." Now, hold on, the next sentence is a masterpiece of logical deduction....
"That means you don't have the option to have some other private company deliver your mail."
WHAM!!! BRILLIANCE ON STEROIDS!!! That's what that means! Except that it doesn't. I've have both UPS and Fed Ex deliver mail to me, did'nt they realize they are breaking the law?
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Watch out for other drivel emanating from that fine "think" tank.
The mailbox argument is assinine. It is true that the mailbox designated for U.S. Mail cannot lawfully be used by other mail providers like local newspapers. However, it is legal to attach to it an additional mailbox. Everyone in our neighborhood has done this for at least 38yrs.
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