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Old 17-10-2013, 11:43   #35
Doug P
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re: [MERGED] Utility companies - price rises

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
CF's version of Godwin's law invoked.

If they were still nationalised you'd be paying a lot more IMO, if not in bills then in taxes to support them. I remember how chronically in-efficient and strike ridden the state sector was in the 70's.
It was awful. Everything from power to the post office and railways to the docks were on strike and making people suffer. It just made bankrupt and inefficient industries even worse off and drained more money from the taxes paid by the workers.
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