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Trump has criticized Germany, S. Korea, and Japan for not "paying him", or us, for what he perceives as benefits from U.S. Mil. protection they don't pay or contribute to the full costs of.
I see no Trump supporter exhibiting any concern about republicans, and now Trump, starving the USPS since 2006, and now, Trump openly defunding and sabotaging it. The latest is refusing to permit the customary non-profit postal rate for absentee / Mail in ballots.
What will rural areas do if USPS mail service ceases, or is privatized. Will residents of those places agree tio pay by the mile to send and receive mail, including packages?
Let's say, for example, the expense to the government for each U.S. Senator, including the cost of the Senate physical space in DC, the staff, security, in-state offices and staff, the salary, benefits, and expenses of each senator, is assessed to the population of each state. There are about 330,000 Wyoming residents per Senator representing them, and 20,000,000 million Californians for each Senator.
The true costs of powerlines and other distribution infrastructure, and even public roads could be the fiscal responsibility of those who benefit most from them.
I'm motivated to write this not only because of the unfair costs of subsidizing thinly populated districts, but also because, for the second time in exactly 100 years, the politicians primarily representing the rural districts, are sabotaging the U.S. Census in an effort to preserve their subsidies and acutely lopsided political representation.
The game is always the same, preserve the perverse advantage of over representation and over-subsidy of thinly populated districts.
If the rest of us are forced to subsidize the cost of their services and experience dramatically less political representation compared to rural residents, shouldn't we at least be thanked for it, as Trump demands he should be thanked?
This is what rural interests did to the 1920 Census, an anticonstitutional dissolution of it.:
1920 United States Census - Wikipedia
...Despite the constitutional requirement that House seats be reapportioned to the states respective of their population every ten years according to the census, members of Congress failed to agree on a reapportionment plan following this census, and the distribution of seats from the 1910 census remained in effect until 1933.
I see no Trump supporter exhibiting any concern about republicans, and now Trump, starving the USPS since 2006, and now, Trump openly defunding and sabotaging it. The latest is refusing to permit the customary non-profit postal rate for absentee / Mail in ballots.
What will rural areas do if USPS mail service ceases, or is privatized. Will residents of those places agree tio pay by the mile to send and receive mail, including packages?
Let's say, for example, the expense to the government for each U.S. Senator, including the cost of the Senate physical space in DC, the staff, security, in-state offices and staff, the salary, benefits, and expenses of each senator, is assessed to the population of each state. There are about 330,000 Wyoming residents per Senator representing them, and 20,000,000 million Californians for each Senator.
The true costs of powerlines and other distribution infrastructure, and even public roads could be the fiscal responsibility of those who benefit most from them.
I'm motivated to write this not only because of the unfair costs of subsidizing thinly populated districts, but also because, for the second time in exactly 100 years, the politicians primarily representing the rural districts, are sabotaging the U.S. Census in an effort to preserve their subsidies and acutely lopsided political representation.
The game is always the same, preserve the perverse advantage of over representation and over-subsidy of thinly populated districts.
If the rest of us are forced to subsidize the cost of their services and experience dramatically less political representation compared to rural residents, shouldn't we at least be thanked for it, as Trump demands he should be thanked?
This is what rural interests did to the 1920 Census, an anticonstitutional dissolution of it.:
1920 United States Census - Wikipedia
...Despite the constitutional requirement that House seats be reapportioned to the states respective of their population every ten years according to the census, members of Congress failed to agree on a reapportionment plan following this census, and the distribution of seats from the 1910 census remained in effect until 1933.