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Monday, April 18, 2005

Ind. Gov't. - Another editorial on Senate Bill 381

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has an editorial today in Senate Bill 381 that begins:

Senate Bill 381 began its life as a mechanism to establish a statewide broadband network and pay for its deployment through low-interest loans. It has morphed, by way of amendments coming from the House, into a telecommunications deregulation beast that a conference committee should tame.

This excessive faith in the free market is misplaced, especially considering this bill hamstrings the one instrument to fight price gouging and other anti-consumer practices. Even the father of airline deregulation, Alfred Kahn, warned that successful deregulation rarely consists of total laissez-faire.

For more, see this ILB entry from April 14th.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 18, 2005 01:33 PM
Posted to Indiana Government