McCaleb: Why are taxpayers always the last to know?
Would you agree to pay for a service without fully understanding what exactly you were buying?
Say, for example, that you wanted to change from cable TV to satellite. You called up a satellite provider and told them you were thinking about switching.
They told you they would install your satellite and have your service activated in a couple of weeks. But they wouldn’t tell you what it was going to cost, or what channels you were going to receive, until it was up and running.
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