I remember reading—I guess it was about 20 years ago now—Milton Friedman's book Free to Choose. He said that the best way to discipline a monopoly or a business is to create competition.
As politicians, we all know how we respond to competition. We fight elections, so we're all aware that competition makes us want to achieve more and to better candidates than the people we're running against. To my mind, competition just makes common sense here. As I said earlier, given the state of our country's infrastructure and the infrastructure deficit many are talking about, it would seem to me that hard-earned taxpayers' money would be much better used in a competitive environment.