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Politics : Libertarian Discussion Forum
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To: Road Walker who wrote (9832)6/15/2014 1:57:53 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 13056
 
Well if you're going to cherry pick:

You have that backwards. Your cherry picking your examples. I'm talking about results from many places in multiple countries.

In your new example the main objection seems to be higher prices. If you really want to get the government heavily involved then subsidies, while not without some problems of their own, often work better then socialized systems.

and in your new example

"and added to the existing infrastructure to reach new communities" - from your link

and considering the previous, pre-privatization situation -

" Cochabamba. In the previous years, despite encumbered funds made available by the World Bank to support the public utility of Cochabamba, access to piped water in the city had decreased to 40%, water losses had remained high at 40% and water was supplied only 4 hours a day. [57] Those not connected to the network paid ten times as much for their water to private vendors as those who were.'
en.wikipedia.org

So it seems that while some people received heavily subsidized government water, and now had to pay more for water, were so upset that they rioted, others got access to water they never had before, or got access to water for a much lower price (35% more than the pre-privatization price rather than 10x the price to grey market operators).
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