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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Manhattan" data-source="post: 47543" data-attributes="member: 341"><p>I don't like this bill, because it's a drag on small businesses who have invested in USPS infrastructures, but honestly I can't see how it limits my personal freedom to purchase or smoke tobacco. This legislation is the federal government setting policies for a federal business. The government has no right to say we can't privately transport a legal substance, by ourselves or through a courier, but they have no obligation to provide that service. (Just as the second amendment doesn't mean the government has to open a store to sell you a gun.) </p><p></p><p>The USPS is self-sufficient--for all intents and purposes, they're just a store that the government runs. A customer has no right per se to tell a business what they must sell. They are free to ask, of course--and we can ask by writing our representatives to kill this bill... I certainly will. </p><p></p><p>If this bill forbid *any company* from transporting tobacco, it would be a genuine prejudicial restriction of free trade, and would be overturned the way the blanket ban on courier companies shipping alcohol was a few years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Manhattan, post: 47543, member: 341"] I don't like this bill, because it's a drag on small businesses who have invested in USPS infrastructures, but honestly I can't see how it limits my personal freedom to purchase or smoke tobacco. This legislation is the federal government setting policies for a federal business. The government has no right to say we can't privately transport a legal substance, by ourselves or through a courier, but they have no obligation to provide that service. (Just as the second amendment doesn't mean the government has to open a store to sell you a gun.) The USPS is self-sufficient--for all intents and purposes, they're just a store that the government runs. A customer has no right per se to tell a business what they must sell. They are free to ask, of course--and we can ask by writing our representatives to kill this bill... I certainly will. If this bill forbid *any company* from transporting tobacco, it would be a genuine prejudicial restriction of free trade, and would be overturned the way the blanket ban on courier companies shipping alcohol was a few years ago. [/QUOTE]
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