In our federal government, what is one division of it that makes money? I know Post office, but they always say they are?

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It depends on what you mean by "making money". Most of the benefit is not in direct cash coming in, but in cash not going out. For instance if it wasn't for the various government agencies concerned with health and medical research, there would be trillions of dollars lost every year due to people being sick or dying from measels, mumps, diptheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis.

No to mention hundreds of drugs and treatments that were developed with govt funds. Not to mention all the tropical diseases intercepted by federal customs agents. We'd also not have the benefits of govt funded research-- little things like jet engines, mass-produced pennicillin, the Internet, computers, radar, weather forecasting, and plant genetic research.

Easily trillions saved right there. The Interstate Highway system, govt funded, saves a few hundred billion a year in transportation costs, plus it's increased property values by several trillion along the interstates. Federal standards for lead and other harmful things in water has saved an intangible amount of IQ points, easily worth many billions a year.

And govt funds for education have educated millions. A recent estimate shows that all the money poured into a college education (2/3 govt funded), the govt recovers in 6 years just from the increased earnings of a college graduate. After that it's all gravy.

That's a few hundred billion a year. And federal financial rules have saved consumers a few trillion in reduced interest rates. So not a lot of visible "profit", as in greenbacks being handed in, just a few trillion in savings every year.

But don't tell that to a tea-bagger.

There are plenty of govt agencies that make a "profit", on paper. For instance loggers and oil drillers that want to plunder on govt and park lands, they pay a nominal "fee" to the govt. That is pure "profit", if you don't consider the intangibles.

Getting $10 an acre for clear-cutting the landscape is pure "profit", if you don't put a value on nature. There are also many situations where you DONT want to make a profit-- for instance if someone goes to a public health clinic with a bad cough diagnosed as TB, you DONT want to make an up-front profit by charging them for treatment, for obvious reasons. So no profit there, just thousands of cases of TB that you won't have to treat later on.

The U.S. Mint. Actually, NO government agency makes money - other than paying wages and salaries, of course. Every cent any government entity takes in is spent, sooner or later.

That's the biggest difference between public sector and private sector - public sector is not allowed to make a profit.

There is more than one way to determine value and production.

" "Let's say the government makes new regulations on the money mints to have them not run 6 months out of the year. Then?

In order to generate more money, the Post Office is considering issuing stamps of living people instead of just....

What are some ways the state can receive money from the federal government.

Let's say the government makes new regulations on the money mints to have them not run 6 months out of the year. Then?

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