PSB Subsidies

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America is a proud free market society. We rely on competition and free markets to obtain the best results. Government subsidies interfere with free markets and give unfair advantage to the businesses that receive the subsidies.

El Paso developers will tell you that the local market can not bear the cost of providing water and sewer service to new housing developments. Market forces are sending a signal. There is not enough water to support growth in El Paso.

So the developers go to the El Paso Water Utilities Public Board (PSB) and ask for subsidies to support growth. The PSB admits to spending hundreds of millions of dollars of their customers' money to subsidize growth in El Paso.

Government subsidies are normally funded by taxes collected from the rich to support the poor. The PSB subsidy is funded by water bills collected from the poor to support the rich.

The PSB has never asked their customers' for their opinion on these subsidies. The customers must pay for the subsidies or the PSB will cut off their water.

The PSB takes their instructions from the city fathers. The PSB defines the city fathers as "The PSB along with elected City officials, the Chamber of Commerce, El Paso Regional Economic Development Corporation, Ft. Bliss and many others that have worked hard to assure Congress and military officials that El Paso has an adequate water supply for the future and for growth."

The COC and REDCO rely on a free market society for their very existence. So why do the COC and REDCO support subsidies to rich developers?