[natex]

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.

[bluGill]

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

[lotsofpulp]

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.

[taeric]

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.