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Mount Airy, MD | reply to PaulHikeS2
Re: Where are the MBB shills? said by PaulHikeS2:
It's the little guys trying to compete that are complaining, not the giants.
Government is hardly the little guy. Government is the biggest, most over-funded, inefficient, over-bloated monopoly in this country. They even put Microsoft to shame.
said by PaulHikeS2:
The muni subsidized one company to use existing infrastructure instead of leasing it to startups who were subsequently crushed due to the expense of purchasing their own equipment. At least that's how I read it.
This is the root of the problem. A privately-owned company would have looked at the financial ramifications of this decision before deciding to subsidize some unproven startup. If the private company screws up, then they have to eat the cost. If they pass that cost onto the consumers in the form of higher prices, then they risk losing customers. Those factors play into the decisions businesses have to make every single day.
A government agency won't care about the financial costs because they can simply make up the lost money in taxes that they collect by holding a gun to people's heads. They don't have to actually earn the money like the rest of us.
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