Illinois taxes are already pretty darn high. Illinois is also experiencing net out-migration, reducing the taxpayer base. Increasing taxes will only make people leave faster. It's a rock and a hard place.
> Ahmed Almheiri, Xi Dong and Daniel Harlow did calculations ...
It's pretty cool to see a Westerner, Middle Easterner and an East Asian dude (at least based on names ...) collaborate to push the frontiers of science like this!
Disagree. I am a native speaker of Urdu, and Urdu is effective only with significant English loan words. The Persian alphabet also makes little sense - we pronounce seen and suad the same way but write them differently thanks to the Persian alphabet being forced on a language that wasn't meant for it.
From my understanding, stunning is still done in the West for producing halal meat- you just have to be careful not to kill the animal, so usually lower-level shocks are used.
I'm not challenging your first or second sentence. I'm challenging your third sentence. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was challenging your whole comment, when mine referred exclusively to the price of USPS services.
I was responding to your statement: "Think of them as a private business when it comes to financials." A private business would be able to set the cost of its services.