elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | reply to biochemistry
Re: Opinions Are Fun! said by biochemistry:Local governments DO have the right to spend money and since they have this right, who is Time Warner and AT&T to tell them how they should or should not spend it. It should be left up to the LOCAL government to decide how the money is spent. That is the beauty of having a LOCAL government so OUTSIDERS cannot dictate what goes on.
Local governments have the right to spend money - but they have to follow the law, which generally will prohibit them from going in direct competition with the very franchises they licensed to the MSO and LEC.
There are a half-dozen legal ways to introduce a 3rd last-mile player into a community without having it run and funded by the government and inviting legal challenge, and without DICTATING that your neighbors must subsidize a service they don't want or use, just because the mob doesn't want to pay their own way. |
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| I agree with you elray.
There are a half-dozen legal ways to introduce a 2nd electricity player into a community without having it run and funded by the government and inviting legal challenge, and without DICTATING that your neighbors must subsidize a service they don't want or use, just because the mob doesn't want to pay their own way.
Those people in the 20's who just got electric power certainly didn't use it...
Oh, and the fact that you do really important things like search for things like jobs on the net means no one will use it either..
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We all subsidize services we don't use. That's what taxes are for. I don't use Medicare, medicaid, food stamps, social security. I've never called the fire department but I do pay a special fee to make sure they are available just in case. Virtually everyone uses the internet to at least a small extent. That makes it a great choice for public bonds. |
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