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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Problem is internet tax is additional tax & not replacement This FCC backed USF tax on broadband was always pitched as a reconfiguration or replacement for POTS based USF fees. But no one actually believed that an internet tax would actually result in the elimination or reduction of the POTS USF fees. The government is not known for reducing or eliminating existing taxes. But they are well known for adding new ones. The MSM finally woke up to this recently and so the FCC taking the heat caused them to back off.
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Schools Red Herring How many years have we been paying for connecting schools to broadband? Isn't this done yet? And why is it a federal problem? Why shouldn't state/local school taxes pay for this stuff since it is their problem?
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join:2005-02-22
Exton, PA | Great! I'm okay with that, didn't seem to be doing much good. |
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 n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY | Waste I certainly agree with Free Press that the waste and fraud need to be removed from the system. The fact that AT&T and Verizon (and Google) are supporting this is even more reason to shoot it down. Anytime the big telco's support a change in the USF, you realize it is all about how much more money they can suck from the taxpayers and give nothing in return. Yet if you even broach the subject of municipal broadband, allowing the taxpayers to use their tax money to pay for their own service, the corporate titan's go ballistic. Yet take the same money from those taxpayers and funnel it to one of the telco's and they are happy as pigs in $#!t even though it is a worse deal for those very same taxpayers.
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 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | USF tax reincarnated Unfortunately, the USF tax didn't die with the land line. It has morphed into the new broadband tax. It is disappointing that we couldn't use this opportunity to find a better way to support broadband deployment. |
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Re: Schools Red Herring The problem with the FCC, FDA etc is that the previous administration appointed their cronies to the key positions. These guys are out to make sure that the government and anything it does fails. No different to Alan Greenspan, who made decisions based on his no government or regulation Ayn Rand creed. The inevitable end result spoke for itself.
Cities and localities have no money. Remember, unlike the rest of the developed world, our tax model is centered around Personal Property and state income taxes and the archaic county based system. Put simply, a county or city is not able to realize economies of scale, as they are overseas, where everything is on a state level.
Why do you think our states are in the red? Teachers, Police, Fire? Dead Wrong. It's because the tax revenue from personal property taxes and state income taxes tanked the second the economy went into recession.
However, to this day, not one single Republican has accepted this fact. Instead, the continue to blame and scapegoat the aforementioned. |
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| So stupid. What did they think the FCC meant when they said they'd "broaden the base" of support?
Everyone on the 8th floor may be running away from this now, but wait until we aren't in an election year. They weren't planning on moving on this item this year anyway. Now, next year is another matter... |
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sparks
join:2001-07-08
Little Rock, AR | when I had a land line was I paying for this Hey give me a $15 a month phone service and then $18.70 a month in taxes and fees that no one can explain and get mad if you ask.
Hell they sound like they are training to be senators.
Lie,cheat,steal and bought off then say what,when,where...NOT ME |
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Re: Schools Red Herring said by Telco:The problem with the FCC, FDA etc is that the previous administration appointed their cronies to the key positions.
/sarcasm on Of course this didn't happen with the current administration. /sarcasm off |
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join:2000-12-11
Portage, IN | reply to Telco
This is the problem with partisans. We will never progress as a nation as long as everyone, rather than coming up with any real solutions, just continues to scapegoat the "other team" for doing exactly what "their team" is doing.
The previous administration appointed their "cronies" (industry insiders mostly) to key regulatory positions. Obama appointed his college buddy to run the FCC. Better or worse? But it's OK to be a parasite on the country, as long as the last guy did it too, right?
I am not beholden to any political party, and I have no problem with sound and reasonable regulations when imposed on industry to protect the citizens or consumers from monopolistic or dangerous behaviors and fraud. But when all the regulations seem to have done in the last few decades is protect the multinationals while turning the screws on the consumers and the little guy. In that case, I'm all for Ayn Rand. |
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| Let the free market decide! If Aunt Myrtle wants broadband in her farm house, she can pay for it just like the rest of us. |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to Telco
Re: Schools Red Herring said by Telco:However, to this day, not one single Republican has accepted this fact. Instead, the continue to blame and scapegoat the aforementioned. Blah blah blah.
Why didn't your man 0bama get this done from 2009 to 2011 then.
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| Because your 'party' put up every roadblock they could think of to keep it from happening, rather than working for the good of the country. |
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 WiseOldNerdDe gustibus non est disputandumPremium
join:2001-11-25
Phoenix, AZ | It's All Lies Lies, they all lie and if they are elected they lie all the time and hire others to lie for them while they sleep. 
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Re: Schools Red Herring said by pnh102:Why didn't your man 0bama get this done from 2009 to 2011 then.
Of course "bla bla bla" as what else does your ilk have... It's always abstract scapegoats like the government or teachers that are apparently to blame for everything.
What he did was stop the depression we were heading into. Once again, you guys act as if you handed him the same economy Bush was handed from Clinton, like federal revenue exceeding expenses (aka a budget surplus).
Then you have the 275 filibusters by the Republicans and TEAnutters; the highest on record in our nation's history. |
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