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bee_riderlast Wednesday at 4:52 AM1 replyview on HN

Wait, how does it work? If the government is using taxpayer money to buy services… that’s not really a free market solution in the conventional sense, right?

Of course if we have to pretend it is to get Texas to do it… fine I guess.


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WaxProlixlast Wednesday at 5:04 AM

Na, the utility payers actually pay it, though taxpayers pay for some of the infrastructure and administration, and given to some service providers in the form of tax breaks I think. The circles of that venn diagram are close to an overlap though.