Consumer group wants to tax Netflix to pay for rural broadband – doesn’t make any sense to me. This would be like taxing people extra who use the most long distance minutes, even though they already pay to use those minutes.
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Consumer group wants to tax Netflix to pay for rural broadband – doesn’t make any sense to me. This would be like taxing people extra who use the most long distance minutes, even though they already pay to use those minutes.
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Unless they’re subsidized, landline telephone service is on the decline so the FCC (thanks FDR) need to find something else to regulate. Why isn’t there ever a proposal to eliminate these old bureaucracies?
By the way, I am saving close to $35 on federal taxes since I switched to FiOS voice in early 2010. Apparently that’s an unregulated service. Shhh…
I don’t really have a problem with subsidies and regulations as methods to get things done. But I do think they need to have clear lines and boundaries, not expanded “just because”.