Burgur King can cut its tax rates in half by moving its Hq to Canada.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Water companies are best run by public entities.
This can be shown by prices charged and benefits received.

I disagree that governments are incapable of outperforming private for-profit companies as any sort of general rule.

[Plane]

  I think it is a general rule ,with specific exceptions.

  Most community water supplies are indeed municipal properties, but where they are corporate , how does this fail?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization_in_the_United_States


  Most of the communities where this is being tried have some sort of dissatisfaction with the city supplied water....

   
But the corporation has to do better than the water as it was, and is likely to not get the subsidy.

[Xavier_Onassis]

We have private water companies here in Miami Dade county. The cost is much higher, and customer satisfaction is lower.

[Plane]

I have a bad memory of the taste of water in Florida.

What are the companies failing ?

[Xavier_Onassis]

There are thousands of water companies in Florida, just as there are in Georgia. I have no idea whose water you tasted.

Water is best left up to municipalities. Profit making private water companies have only one thing in common: they add to the price of the water.

[Plane]

  If they compete , profit gives motive to make it good.

   What moves a municipal facility to strive for excellence?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Water purity is tested by a national standard for parts per million of a long list of minerals, bacteria and contaminants. If there is an excess, it gets into the papers and the municipality has to tell the people that the water is unfit to drink.

The standards are rather high. No water company, municipal or commercial, wants this sort of bad publicity.

Unless those doing the testing are perhaps bribed, there is little likelihood that the tests are inaccurate.

Commercial companies in search of profits have money and motive to bribe, the average water purification manager does not.

If you compare city water with all the other industries, you will find that there are many fewer infractions and scandals.