moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | If you can't drop your own rates....
....make your competition pay more. 
Got to love how companies can no longer compete on price but have to resort to "dirty politics." |
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Voyager2K2
join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA | Air is Free
Infrastructure is not.
What a load of garbage. Get over it cable! |
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whocares
Premium
join:2003-07-26
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| AN'T NO WAY
There is NO WAY in helsinki that i will pay this, I HAD DIRECTV & IWILL GO BACK to DURECTV,(i am on cable because I am being FORCED to) not because a matter of choice,
besides SATALITE tv HAS MANY CUSTOMER FRIENDLY, options that cable tv (and the makers of the BOX0 could care about,)
IF THIS PASS's then i'am gone,,,,,,,TIME WARNER |
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rudnicke
Premium
join:2004-10-23
Rantoul, IL | This is just awful...
This has to be as bad as the anti-muni wireless telco's doing anything they can to keep the money in their pockets. |
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amenite
The Soylent - It's People
Premium
join:2002-11-21
Ridgewood, NJ
clubs:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| It's a trend
It's been going on for some time now. If you browse the program guide on DTV, you will see channels dedicated to this. But it used to be state specific with titles like "fight unfair satellite taxes in Kentucky". Now the channel just says "fight unfair satellite taxes". Unfortunately, it's not available in my area, I guess because they don't want to waste bandwidth in regions where it's not an immediate concern.
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | And what praytell are they paying the tax for?
The infrastructure and right of ways? The resources they use from the municipality
Why not tax radio stations and internet sites while they're at it. |
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JTRockville
Data Ho
Premium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD
clubs: |  Why Not Make Both Industries Fund The Competition?
Do cable companies incur fees for building and launching the direct-to-home satellites used by DirecTV and EchoStar? |
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ke4pym
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC
 ·Verizon BroadbandA..
 ·Packet8
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Not really a big deal
They did that here in North Carolina a few years back. Cable had a sales tax (which doesn't make sense). So why not tax satellite service?
Really, it seems fair to me. I mean, I don't see them taking the sales tax away from Cable. So you might as well add it on to other pay TV delivery services.
No telling where those tax dollars are going, though. |
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Chiyo
Save Me Konata-Chan
Premium
join:2003-02-20
Minneapolis, MN
clubs: | well I don't wanna pay more I'm happy with my current rates and what do taxes go too anyway? if it was somthing usefull maybe I'd change my mind but right now I don't want 'em |
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Voyager2K2
join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA | reply to ke4pym
Sales tax is one thing and a tax "to level the playing field" is a junk tax and stinks of creating a anti-competitive environment regardless of "sugar coating" who MAY be the beneficiary of such taxes. |
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footballdude
Premium
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO | Make up their minds
I think all levels of government ought to make up their minds. Either have a sales tax or an income tax, but not both. And don't get me started on property taxes! |
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gpancner
join:2001-09-27
Nine Mile Falls, WA
| reply to moonpuppy
Re: If you can't drop your own rates....
It's about making the satellite subscribers pay the same tax amount that cable subscribers do. Municipalities provide services that many satellite subscribers want but are unable and/or unwilling to pay for. So they tax the easiest target (i.e. cable). Now that so many ignorant, whining freeloader types have gone to satellite those municipalities are losing tax revenue on a grand scale. The only way of recovering the loss is to apply the same amount of tax to all providers of video. Cell phone companies collect the same taxes as hard wire phone, so should satellite companies. |
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JTRockville
Data Ho
Premium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD
clubs: | Here in MD, cable is not taxed. |
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gpancner
join:2001-09-27
Nine Mile Falls, WA
| reply to rudnicke
Re: This is just awful...
when was the last time you kept your taxes in your pocket? how do cable companies and telcos keep their franchise fees (taxes) in their pockets?
the only major difference in price between cable tv and satellite is the tax they collect for municipalities. |
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abetteridea
@optonline.net
| reply to moonpuppy
Re: If you can't drop your own rates....
I got a better idea, how about a 250% tax on the a$$e$ that thought up such a scheme! These people have learned nothing from the people a few hundred miles north who buy american satellite tv when they're no supposed to, who makes them think that people here will pay an unfair tax..
Companies who put wires to your home have higher costs, its just that simple.. and the more these companies try to scheme to screw a satellite and/or telco competitor, the more the cracks are showing about customer churn rates and telco advancements across the country... what I'm a bit disappointed in is only one company decided to do large scale fiber rollouts. Directv is doing massive HDTV rollouts too, this is why cablevision had no chance of gaining any marketshare. |
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gpancner
join:2001-09-27
Nine Mile Falls, WA
| reply to Voyager2K2
Re: Not really a big deal
if you had a business that was collecting/paying a tax that your competitor did not have to pay, wouldn't your competitor have a price advantage over you?
if the competitor had to pay the collect/pay the same tax as you, wouldn't the field be more level?
no sugar coating, just reality. the ones who benefit from the tax is the municipalities who are bleeding millions in lost franchise fees because of satellite tv. |
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b10010011
Whats a Posting tag?
join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA
·Comcast Formerly ..
3 edits | At least we still got our $15 car tabs!
Funny how people think we can just vote taxes away, and *poof* no more taxes.
At least that's what the great brain of Tim Eyman told us and people in Washington believed while they voted away the excise tax that was tacked on to our car tabs every year.
Well now that the state is broke, they are raising other taxes. Higher gas tax, sales tax, property tax, booze tax, cigarette tax, satellite tax, and rumor of a state income tax.
OMG, how can that happen! Tim TIM save us... |
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vic102482
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Upper Marlboro, MD
| That is wrong
Totally wrong, satellite tv costs alot of money to operate and mainttain and satellites dont launch for free. Cable companies tear up yards and knock holes in your wall. Big busniess or not, satellite tv is right.
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ColdFiltered
join:2005-01-25
Atlanta, GA | reply to Voyager2K2
Re: Air is Free
What does air have to do with it? Those satellites are ~22,000 miles away. I say tax those with business assets and or employees in the state. Didn't California try this not too long ago? West Coast Nuts at it again. |
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TheGhost
Premium
join:2003-01-03
Lake Forest, IL
clubs: | reply to gpancner
Re: If you can't drop your own rates....
The only difference is that the Cable companies pay a fee to use the rights of way, sat companies do not use them. Why should they pay for the ROWs that they don't use? |
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