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| said by firephoto  :Most of you anti-municipal broadband people are essentially saying you don't support a municipality providing or investing in new ways to offset taxes or expenses. But the fact remains that no government provided broadband service is cost-free. In just about every situation, tax money is used, or user fees from other government provided services are used to pay for part of the cost. Governments also do not have to pay taxes the way private entities do. This then allows the government to "sell" the service at a cost that is less than what a private company could offer. If anything, this could end up discouraging private investment.
said by firephoto :Also you're saying that for some magic reason a business can be successful where the government can't be at doing the _same_exact_thing_. In the case of Philadelphia, we have a city government that cannot even keep its citizens safe from crime, provide good schools, or keep fire stations open. Even if government-provided broadband was a good thing, is this the kind of government that should be running it?
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