Smaller Government/Non-Government Economy

Safe AG’s participation in annual and semi-annual rural town meetings is a requirement of the revenue sharing agreement with each community. Shared revenue must benefit the true will of local citizens to meet the purposes of the Safe AG initiative, to eliminate dependency on "big government" support and to replace tax dollars which are being mandated away by recent legislation.

Economic diversity is the key to long term sustainability. SAFE AG and its associated services have been a powerful medium from day one in January of 1995. SAFE AG services will be a powerful medium in the creation of new and improved region wide work and recreation opportunities, it will incubate a more informed, educated and participatory citizenry, and SAFE AG will help institutions and individuals better understand and respond to the creation of a more cooperative economic future. SAFE AG activities will provide the means (for the first time) for rural government to have true revenue sharing along with increased tax savings from the free communication services for schools and local government. These dollars have not been estimated but any government savings at all is welcomed.

Regardless of the rural user group of private individuals, schools, government or business it is impossible to adequately participate or compete with these economic barriers to communication access. No one proposes rural telephone use should be free, rather, that when the cost exceeds the ability of the rural community to afford simple access, then, in that instance, the cost should be reduced or removed to allow the rural community to function as a modern socioeconomic entity.

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