I would argue that private enterprise (when granted a near monopoly) is worse for consumers and costs us more than the government subsidizing it to begin with.
I challenge you to look at tariff sheets for PUC-regulated LEC-delivered data circuits and make that same statement again.
Are you saying that because of the tariffs that are paid to local government? You don't think those tariffs are built into the circuit fee and then passed along to the consumer?
