Glenn Fleishman says Municipalities Forced into Broadband Business. This is similar to why cities must build stadiums to subsidize rich football teams and baseball owners. Private money doesn't see the justification so get the tax payers to do it since "everyone" wants it. One of the justifications is that you give someone (Verizon, etc) an exclusive license to do something and then regulate their rates. Since their rates are capped, they naturally want to give as little as they can for that amount of money. Since they are now not giving everything that some of the people might want, that's justification to have the taxpayers pay up for the rest.
