- Reduce taxation on broadband and telecommunications services. - Reduce the costs and restrictions on cabling neighborhoods - Cut taxes and regulations on bu

- Reduce taxation on broadband and telecommunications services. - Reduce the costs and restrictions on cabling neighborhoods - Cut taxes and regulations on businesses to encourage more start-ups including in poor neighborhoods. Spending $70 million to give free broadband to 25,000 residences is (expensive) wishful thinking that doesn't encourage job growth or invite new investors into the city. If anything, it will repel investors by sending the message that the city prefers to subsidize the poor and ignore the working class and middle class. The city could also invite Google Fiber to come and set up shop, and that will drive down prices real fast. Nothing like a little innovation and competition to shake things up, as has been demonstrated in Kansas City, Austin and other areas where Google has either moved in or merely threatened to move in.