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Re: I can't help but be reminded... said by baineschile:said by BillRoland:every month, that my electric bill, which is from the city owned utility, is the most expensive in the entire State of Florida. Government entities can subsidize broadband for as long as it takes to run private enterprise out of town because they can recover it with taxes. Once they are the monopoly, look out. Kudos Our city-owned electric monopoly not only charges 1/3rd more than the national average, the billions we pay to the utility to maintain infrastructure get passed to the city coffers instead. (In addition to the 12% tax.)
Recently, they tried to establish a solar rooftop monopoly, so that ONLY the utility's union members could install the panels. Only through a broad coalition of interests did we defeat the "emergency" measure that would have allowed this and committed us to untold billions in rate increases and taxes.
The CEO just quit because he and the mayor were caught violating the water conservation law (after hiring ten "water cops" to enforce it!), while the aforementioned infrastructure has been creating sinkholes 10x a day all about the city. Oh, and of course, there were the lactation classes.
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