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Energy should be free. Electricity..for example..is basically like traffic passing through a street. The real cost that is our electricity bill is for wages and pensions and buildings that house employees etc.

Same with water. We have public utilities because we are no longer allowed to dig wells for potable water.

The cost of most public services is really the wages of public sector employees and costs associated with these jobs.

A thought experiment: It should be possible to provide public housing, free medical, education, utilities, basic city administration for a flat tax rate. Each city with a capped population can obtain superior standard of living by increasing taxes or reduce population if taxes aren’t sufficient.