Comments about ‘Payson balks at UTOPIA funding agreement’

What no one ever tells them is this fact. In America, the only future you have is the right to be born, (if not aborted that is), and, the right to leave this world as you came into it (with nothing, but knowledge), when you were born, that's all. That's true. Look it up. You came in with nothing, you leave with nothing. Stop trying to say "you'll take it with you when you leave", that ani't going to happen. So enjoy life while you can. Stop your whine's, no one is listening anyway. At least, not me.

Color me unsurprised. This is the same level of cowardice they showed two years ago. Real leaders try and solve challenges. Payson just tucks tail and runs.

Pretty good deal for $259k yearly...

Meanwhile, private enterprise is providing great services to most parts of the Wasatch front at ZERO cost to the taxpayers, and they continually upgrade.

At the same time, UTOPIA has squandered millions, is ever deeper in debt and providing marginal services and begging for more tax dollars, essentially forever.

A wonderful example of how government competition against private enterprise is usually a waste of tax dollars, and a bad bargain that only benefits a handful of politicians and their friends.

@DN Subscriber -- think again. Private enterprise is heavily subsidized via the use of public rights-of-way, universal service funds, network access charges (which are allowed by the FCC, but not mandated - yet they are charged anyway), etc., etc.

Furthermore, it's an apples to watermelon (not even oranges) comparison in terms of capacity. Around the world governments are building and providing the roads of the 21st century (communications lines), but we continue to pat ourselves on the back about how great we are to be satisfied with the goat paths provided by the private sector. This is about global economic competition in the information age, not about government competition with a failed private duopoly!