Louisiana utility companies still want to charge customers for the costs of a new energy efficiency program and for the electricity no longer needed due to that program.
Any service that has infrastructure requirements like this, such that there’s a mandatory “base fee” under the usage fee, should be nationalized, and the base fee paid be taxes. Every, and any, service. Water. Sewage. Electricity. Internet. Roads. Any basic need provided, that requires infrastructure that would incur a monthly maintenance fee. De-privatize it.
This would be my litmus law for nationalizing services.
Yup.
However, let me suggest a radical idea:
Any service that has infrastructure requirements like this, such that there’s a mandatory “base fee” under the usage fee, should be nationalized, and the base fee paid be taxes. Every, and any, service. Water. Sewage. Electricity. Internet. Roads. Any basic need provided, that requires infrastructure that would incur a monthly maintenance fee. De-privatize it.
This would be my litmus law for nationalizing services.
Natural monopoly is the term you’re looking for I believe, though I think you’re going a smidge further then the definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Works for me.