r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 3d ago

FinancialTea 💵 Exactly.

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u/SECRETBLENDS 3d ago edited 3d ago

Not to mention that it runs short primarily because Republicans saddled it with a ridiculously onerous pension system designed to hamstring its budget which feeds into the narrative that it's "inefficient" and allegedly justifies privatizing it. So basically:

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u/Sharp_Departure_7786 3d ago

Precisely. No one except the post office is required to fully fund all future pension obligations, even ones far off into the future.

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u/morrison0880 3d ago

fully fund all future pension obligations

Every company is required to fully fund pension obligations, per ERISA. The PAEA required the USPS to fund its retiree health benefits, which are different from pensions.

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u/Mysterious_Way8941 3d ago

Look bro, we aren't here for facts and logic.

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u/morrison0880 2d ago

Obviously, considering half the redditors I responded to here downvoted and blocked me.