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For decades, people in the US have been given a song and dance by the telecoms about how tax cuts, surcharges, and a long list of other expenses are necessary for telecoms to "invest" in infrastructure. The concessions are granted again and again, but the investments are never actually made. In all, US taxpayers have paid $400 Billion in taxes and Internet surcharges for fiber optic upgrades that never happened.
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Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @11:38PM
The Founders of America tried to create a restricted government; the whole point of the Constitution was not to create or grant rights to The People, but rather to restrict the government.
Nowadays, what is there that the Government doesn't stick its tendrils in?
They promised Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, but you cannot even grow a single certain plant in your own home, or eat part of it in a brownie after a long day at work.
Your government is a fraud; your government is a bait and switch.
If you're going to give the Men-with-Guns a mandate, it better be very well defined, very restricted, and easy to monitor; their mandate should be only to ensure that The People are able to interact on voluntary terms, according to well defined, well negotiated agreements in advance of their interaction—not during their interaction, and definitely not after their interaction.
Disputes can be adjudicated in court, and such case law can be refined by legislation; the only time "legislators" should be doing anything should be when there is a matter of interaction between individuals that cannot be solved by existing rules. Thus, this precludes the right of the government to allocate resources—the government should not be allowed to allocate resources, other than to the Men-with-Guns for the sole purpose of implementing their role as referees.
And guess what?
The market can handle that role, too; the best Separation of Powers is competition within the market—that's why there never has been and their never will be One World Government.