In Tuesday’s Alligator, the Editorial Board took a strong stance in favor of adding more Gainesville utility providers, finally bringing the free market to our power and water and working to stop the city-controlled socialists at GRU. Frankly, I couldn’t agree more.
We should be asking members of the left-wing city commission why they won’t let the free market work. They might say that adding another set of utilities would require tearing up the roads and building new power lines, or that the cost would be enormous, or that public utilities just don’t work that way. But I say they are dead wrong.
This is America. No task is too bold, and their naysaying is in the way of private industry.
While we’re tearing up the roads, why not build a second set of private, free market streets as well? The Florida Department of Transportation has held a monopoly on our roads ever since I was born, and it’s high time we let competition prevail.
The invisible hand of the free market needs to run its course, and creating competition for GRU is just the first step.
Personally, I think we need competition in the fire department, as well. With their communist, state-owned services, it makes perfect sense why their trucks are all painted red.
In reference to: http://www.alligator.org/opinion/editorials/article_4cbd026c-6c89-528e-b3fb-d63ae90468ba.html
