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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:08AM (#27685450)
The post office has been around for a very long time, and is an example of the government providing a service which people pay for by using the service.

There are numerous examples of this. Your water supply might be one of them.

Municipal broadband is also usually pay-for-use, and you could fund it with bonds, which is also common.

You could argue against how a municipality decides to implement their own broadband service. But saying that no municipality should be able to provide any service - or even particular services - seems a bit odd. Since that's the majority of what local governments do...

The police, education, water, roads, parks, etc...

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