This also hedges against private daycares closing, so there's more choice in the childcare system, and it works for bus riders too, because the transit system gets more riders and can better justify increases in bus capacity. Laws should have to work for everyone, not just those who have children.-

We live in a capitalist country, but that doesn't mean there can't be a public and private option. Public advancement doesn't need to come at the cost at small businesses. The reason we have an electric grid across the continent is because government worked with companies to provide electricity-

To those in rural areas, where it wasn't profitable for electric companies to put up the infrastructure. The government's roll should be to provide a public alternative, when the cost of service becomes too much for private industry to justify providing. It does no good to sue an electric company.-

If there's no alternative source of energy. Government has provided the bed of monopolies to be made, by allowing electric companies to be the only source of electricity generation. Microgrids are the future, the grid also needs to exist, but we have to start thinking of maintenance for lines-