karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
Nashua, NH
 ·Fairpoint Communic..
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Re: Good for them
How do you get that? Their TAX dollars will flow right back into the community. Most likely, all the installers and employees will be citizens of the county, so, dollar for dollar, they are pumping it right back into their local economy. Vs. Comcast, who outsources all their work overseas, that means when people pay their comcast bill, the money is gone forever.
I'm willing to wager that every dollar they spend will provide much more LOCAL economic activity than ANY return they get spending money on comcast. I don't mind if my taxes go to pay LOCAL people, who spend their money LOCALLY.
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Yauch
join:2005-06-24
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September 27th, @10:34AM
| Sure the installers and employees will live in the county. That's $12/hour flowing right back into the community. Too bad they have to spend $200 million up front before the citizens start seeing their taxes come back $12 at a time. |
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Richard B
Fur It Up
join:2007-06-22
Portland, OR
 ·Comcast
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Excuse me the problem is no wealth is being generated. All you are doing is transferring dollars from one person to another. This is the classic broken window fallacy. You are telling the baker yes it huts that government takes his share of the 200,000,000 but the installers will buy more bread from him (not always true). The problem is you are not factoring in the baker out of x amount of dollars. In turn he will pass the cost on to the consumer in the way of higher prices and he is out of dollars that he could had use to better himself or his business like hire help or invest in new equipment. It ends up as a net loss for those involved. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Navarre, FL | But that's what karlmarx's wealth redistribution is all about. It doesn't matter if everyone loses, so long as everyone is on the same playing field and has the same thing. Ok in theory, but in practice, it suffers horribly. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC
·Verizon Online DSL
·Cox HSI
| reply to Richard B
What about all the people getting access to fast broadband service than they would have gotten otherwise? That sounds like a form of wealth to me. Government pays for other things like voting machines that don't create wealth, but we still want them |
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Yauch
join:2005-06-24 | Even with that awesome wifi connection I've got in my cardboard box in the alley, for some reason I still feel poor. |
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