>The problem that I see with this approach is that we are privatizing profits while socializing costs.
This is becoming more and more the go-to complaint even when it's obviously not a fit. Dare I call it virtue signaling. The fact of the matter it that policing physical i/o of commerce is customs job and has been for the entire history of the US and beyond. Custom's continued existence is part of why we, and FedEx pay taxes. They don't get to just offload their job with the stroke of a pen.
This is becoming more and more the go-to complaint even when it's obviously not a fit. Dare I call it virtue signaling. The fact of the matter it that policing physical i/o of commerce is customs job and has been for the entire history of the US and beyond. Custom's continued existence is part of why we, and FedEx pay taxes. They don't get to just offload their job with the stroke of a pen.