Monopoly utility companies should not make “donations”

The Salt River Project (SRP) has recently been taking some justifiable flak over their one million dollar “donation” to support the upcoming Super Bowl in Arizona. It is clearly wrong for SRP to do this. SRP has a monopoly on providing water and power in their service territory and they should stick to this job. SRP board members should donate their own money to the Super Bowl and not give away their ratepayers money. Neither SRP nor any other government monopoly should give away money that is taken by force from customers or from taxpayers.