Reply #8: When the country wants a uniform service

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Like they wanted when the Postal Service was created. They didn't want rural people paying market rates for mail delivery, so a first class letter is the same price from anywhere to everywhere.

Pulling a quote from a Star Trek movie, "when the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few".

As an aside, once it is decided that the state should run the company, there is no need for it to be separately accounted for as a "profit center". They simply have to decide to price the service or products affordably and if it runs a surplus or deficit during the accounting year, they can realize a gain or cover the loss from the general fund and adjust prices for the following year.

Mexico's PEMEX runs pretty well, despite the level of corruption. They certainly give Mexicans less reason to gripe than private oil companies do to Americans.