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by verve_rat 996 days ago
The danger of course is that this turns in to a subsidy for the private interests. If they can avoid serving the unprofitable because the government will pick up the slack, then tax payers are paying for the service of that 10% and private business gets all the profit from the rest.

Either you need industry charges to cover that cost to government, or a mandate that they can't ignore expensive customers.
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8note 996 days ago
> Either you need industry charges to cover that cost to government

Like, corporate taxes?

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verve_rat 996 days ago
Maybe, but more targeted than that. You could tax health insurance companies to pay for a public system, or you could put a surcharge on phone bills paid directly by the consumer to subsidise service to rural users.

There are lots of options each with their own trade offs.

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