Private companies should not own public utilities. No one should make a profit on things a community needs in order to thrive.
Our forty year orgy of privatization must give way to an appropriate balance between individual economic interests and a concern for the common good.
Pennsylvania passed a law incentivizing private companies to buy publicly-owned water systems.
Now residents are seeing their water bills skyrocket.
One local official put it bluntly during a hearing today: "People should see privatization for what it really is — a scam."
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