Big Post Office vs. Big Oil

Taxing Tennessee reports:

If stamp prices had increased over time at "only" the rate of gas prices, a first-class stamp would only cost only 27.6 cents today instead of 42 cents.

When gas prices rose last year, Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-MI) introduced "The Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act," which would make it a crime to "sell crude oil or gasoline at a price that is unconscionably excessive." Shouldn't we now investigate "unconscionably excessive stamp prices"? Monopoly has its privileges.

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