It is all a matter of definition, but we feel, and this is the mandate we received, that in order to provide service, to improve service, to invest in research and development of new products and services, to raise and to modernize the equipment that we use, for which we need capital, we should generate enough revenue, enough earnings, to provide for that at no cost to the taxpayers.
The service/product-provider here has ties to the government.
The passage says they should be able to deliver "at no cost to the taxpayers", which means there could be a cost to the taxpayers, which means they have some sort of tie to a local, state or federal government. Only the government has the power to tax.
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