My answer to that: it's a combination of a belief and lobbying. The belief: the federal government can't do anything correctly, and wastes taxpayer money. The

My answer to that: it's a combination of a belief and lobbying. The belief: the federal government can't do anything correctly, and wastes taxpayer money. The lobbying: Comcast, and regional telephone oligopolies lobby to keep all governments, local, state, national, from providing internet services. The motives here vary, but probably come down to keeping a local or regional monopoly. An unfortunate synergy, essentially.