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.
More Perfect Union
 @MorePerfectUS
12 Dec 2023
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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Can you give us an example of a situation where the common good should ever be sacrificed for individual economic interests?
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Replying to @CarlBeijer
No

Dec 12, 2023 · 5:43 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @CarlBeijer
Individuals working to better themselves and their families created the greatest (and freest) economic engine ever known. If you don’t have economic freedom, you don’t have political freedom.
Replying to @marwilliamson @CarlBeijer
What do you expect, she a liberal, not a socialist!
Replying to @marwilliamson @CarlBeijer
Especially at said orgy, right?
Replying to @marwilliamson
That's why I don't think framing this as a balance question is useful. Advancing individual economic interests always ought to be justified for the sake of the common good. If we talk about striking a "balance" we leave open the possibility that the former may outweigh the latter
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Replying to @marwilliamson @CarlBeijer
The Post Office!!! Postal banking?? Postal broadband????? Makes sense if you think of it.