bripat9643
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- Apr 1, 2011
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No, because it that were true the South still wouldn't have a power grid. It's why there's no cable TV where I live. They'd lose money to install the infrastructure, so they don't, and now never will. That's capitalism baby, love it. leave it, or regulate it, which is what we do, for reasons like the above...Yes, we all know that the government handed AT&T a monopoly. However, your theory that everyone wouldn't have obtained a telephone without that monopoly is idiotic. Telephone market penetration was proceeding at astounding rates before the monopoly was granted. There was absolutely no economic justification for it. It was all special pleading by crony capitalists. Nothing is more predictable than corporations asking the government to be granted a legal monopoly.
BTW, why shouldn't rural dwellers pay more than urban inhabitants? Don't you think consumers should pay based on what it costs to provide the service?
Well, if you live in the boonies, why do you think you're entitled to cable TV? You won't get it because now there's satellite TV. If you want to live where things like cable TV cost a lot more to provide, then you can't complain when you can't get it. If you don't like it, move.
People living in the boonies have a connection to the power grid because the parents of kids living in the ghetto are being taxed to pay for it.
Yeah, that sounds fair.
What you object to is that under the free market people have to pay what things actually cost. In other words, you're a self-centered idiot who thinks other people should subsidize your lifestyle.