Re:USPS Estimates $230 Billion in Losses over Next 10 Years
by dpatru on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @02:48PM
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Your statement, "by spending $1 to provide a service to a group of people, you increase the size of the economy, and consequently the tax base in that area, by more than $1," even if it were true, is too broad: it applies to services which pay for themselves as well as those that don't. It's not an argument for why government should overcharge city folk to pay for services for country folk.
That is emphatically not what his comment stated, nor how the effects work.
The specific argument is that by spending $1 to provide a service to a group of people, you increase the size of the economy, and consequently the tax base in that area, by more than $1, thus turning a net profit.