Access to just about every necessity is being withdrawn and withheld from the poor - be it food, housing, healthcare, or internet and phone service. Imo the government should be offering all of these at a basic rate (e.g. government run brand) to set a bare minimum for quality, quantity and price to allow everyone to live comfortably. If you wanted to pay more for privately run versions it should still be possible, but this would both guarantee that companies don’t just raise their prices to compensate in the face of universal basic income or rental assistance type programs

This type of infrastructure should have always remained in government hands, and I don’t understand how the government continues to bow down to the companies and let them own the telephone poles