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>Blocking public services that naturally have a pricing advantage over private businesses because they're supported by tax dollars. That's the stated rationale
by p_j_w 3y ago
>Blocking public services that naturally have a pricing advantage over private businesses because they're supported by tax dollars.
That's the stated rationale. The actual reason is that the entirety of Republican economic ideology revolves around the idea that the government isn't capable of providing better service than private companies and municipal broadband shows this to be a complete lie.
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoWell, firstly, we should acknowledge that municipal broadband isn't a story of completely unmitigated success - there are cases of tremendous failure as well. I'm also fairly sure that most Republicans would not mind if municipal broadband were run - and competed on - commercial terms. However, if it's funded by municipal bonds that are backed by general obligation (i.e. all taxpayers subsidize, whether they use the service or not) then that seems obviously a problem to me. Even if they're revenue bonds, they're still implicitly subsidized by tax treatment.