Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr...
by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:08AM
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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...
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...