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A municipality's decision to implement common locally-owned internet as a public utility IS the free market. The State should not get to decide what's a "waste of resources" for me and my neighbors.

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If your neighbor doesn't use the public internet for whatever reason, then making your neighbor pay for it is a waste of resources.

And some people do not have cars or children in schools or use the food banks or go to community college.

Not everything is about the individual cost/benefit, and individuals can benefit from society wide benefits.

Further in this direction. The neighbor that doesn't use this internet will still benefit from the value of new jobs and opportunity that it will bring.

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