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[Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk>]

Jim Cook wrote:
> Does anyone else find this bothersome?
>
> "The Local Government Fair Competition Act (HB 1587), introduced in the
> N.C. House with bipartisan partnership in April, would not allow local
> governments to use tax revenue to fund any kind of telecommunications 
> utility."
>
> http://www.newsobserver.com/print/thursday/city_state/story/611549.html

Bothersome?  Why?  Do you think government should collect involuntary
tax revenues and then spend that money to compete with private 
enterprise?  I certainly do not.   Let the telecom companies compete
on their own merits... if citizens in rural areas want to voluntarily
fund improvements to their infrastructure in order to attract 
businesses, that's fine... but why not let them form a voluntarily 
funded, non-profit coop in order to do it.


TTYL,


Phil
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