What do I look like a Commie?...

There are a lot of arguments where the subject of socialism vs. Capitalism is brought up. Here is one of the more interesting ones. As you may or may not know some cities and towns have passed ordinances where the city provides free WiFi to all its citizens. Recently a couple of Senators have introduced a bill that would make it illegal for cities and towns to give away WiFi internet. The arguments for this bill would be that giving away internet would be unfair competition to ISPs. And free internet pretty much amounts to socialism and we all know how "bad" that would be. Then again its not like the governments doesn't already provide some services for free. Like education and healthcare...wait I'm thinking of Canada, but education is free. Also the name is just deceitful. They called it the "Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act." I mean if they really want to know if people are behind this why didn't they call it the "Anti-free Internet Act." I believe that if the voters of a city already agreed that they want their taxes to go up in exchange for free internet that the government should not be able to do anything about it, but of course I also believe that there are many other services the government should be providing. Some that are, dare I say it, more important than the internet.

What do you guys think?

Here's the link to the bill if you want to read it.

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/ensign.telecom.bill.072705.pdf