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Answer my question and I'll answer yours. The claim is that this stifles innovation. Demonstrate this for us poor Statists.
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My cable bill already has $30 in taxes on it.
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Wrong. It's because the REAL enemy of the US is not the government, Islamics, communists, Tea Party or religious right ---- It's the banks and corporations.
How do you know we are getting a "massive new federal bureacracy?"
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The banks and corporations already own this government.
In every area that is regulated by the federal government a massive bureaucracy is created. Add massive new powers to control our lives and Big Brother will be hiring busybodies to enforce their laws and create new ones every couple of weeks. I know we will because I have had my eyes open.
Nonsense. You have that backward. We have a fascistic federal government that controls nearly every facet of our lives, working and leisure, through hundreds of thousands of regulations.
Its not just net neutrality, its classifying Internet as a public utility, using a wireless act meant for radio, which gives the FCC a lot of power. Like with TV they will be able to regulate content.
I think you'll be fine without the liberty to throttle network traffic based on who pays more.
In fact, we'll all be better off. Net neutrality is a barrier to censorship and a barrier to the stifling of innovation.
Can you name some specific parts of your life where this becomes an interference? Not generalities. You. Your life. Specifically.
`The federal government, at this point in our history is the greatest threat Americans face. Banks, or for that matter corporations cannot tax you, cannot force you to buy or use them. And they cannot put you in prison.
`Nonsense. You have that backward. We have a fascistic federal government that controls nearly every facet of our lives, working and leisure, through hundreds of thousands of regulations.
I think you'll be fine without the liberty to throttle network traffic based on who pays more.
In fact, we'll all be better off. Net neutrality is a barrier to censorship and a barrier to the stifling of innovation.
That's not what net neutrality is. That might be something they are trying to pass, but that isn't net neutrality.
There is no massive new federal bureaucracy being created, and there is nothing that states Internet providers will have to pay a single new fee.How do you believe this massive new federal bureaucracy will be paid for? Who knows what they will be. If you want an ideal take a walk through an itemized phone bill. You will find many small fees and taxes. They are chopped up so you will be less aware of the total government take. You will be paying for the minders, the busybodies and the Internet Police.
I am against a tax on broadband. That tax proposal, however, would apply regardless of whether net neutrality is adopted or not. If you are worried about a tax on the Internet, you should be fighting proposals like the above instead of net neutrality.for example
My cable bill already has $30 in taxes on it.
I am against a tax on broadband. That tax proposal, however, would apply regardless of whether net neutrality is adopted or not. If you are worried about a tax on the Internet, you should be fighting proposals like the above instead of net neutrality.
Net neutrality is the de facto way the Internet has always been. It seems to have worked out tremendously well for us. I don't know why you are against government stopping unnatural, non-free market telecommunications monopolies from changing the way the Internet works (something they couldn't do if they competed on a free market) at the expense of competitors like Netflix and Hulu.Im fighting all govt involvement in the internet because we didnt give them the power to regulate communications, and because I believe they will make it worse, both in quality and cost.
Yeah, the government wouldn't get so deep into our everyday lives as to tell us what kind of light bulbs we can produce or what toilet we can buy, right?
Net neutrality is only for ISPs. THe govt will not remain neutral, and you have less power over them, than you do a company.
I'd rather no one control the net.`
In a breath, I'd rather have the government exercise control the net than any for-profit corporation.
Inefficient lightbulbs strain the powergrid further and increase energy consumption which brings more pollution. Buying slightly more efficient lightbulbs is not a major burden upon you, particularly since you save money over the life of the bulb.
I'm not familiar with toilet regulations. What type of toilet do you want to buy but are unable to?
Can be? Did the article stutter? It says "required". And you doubt it?This opinion piece doesn't cite a specific regulation that says all such classifications require the tax in question.The FCC imposes fees of 16.1% on interstate telecommunications services that will generate more than $8 billion in federal universal service funds in 2014. Additional FCC fees on interstate telecommunications services raise $1 billion for federal telecommunications relay services. Although Congress mandates the general nature of the federal universal service fund and telecommunications relay services, it is the FCC alone that sets the budget size of the funds and develops the fee structure to raise receipts for the funds.
Even with all of its power, the FCC does not have the money to fund all of the new programs it seeks. For example, just in the past year, the FCC announced an ambitious multi-billion program to connect schools and libraries with Wi-Fi. Other advocates seek expansion of the low-income program. But where can the FCC find funds for new social programs not required by statute?
The FCC’s network neutrality proceeding may easily provide the answer. By classifying broadband access services as “interstate telecommunications services,” those services would suddenly become required to pay FCC fees. At the current 16.1% fee structure, it would be perhaps the largest, one-time tax increase on the Internet. The FCC would have many billions of dollars of expanded revenue base to fund new programs without, according to the FCC, any need for congressional authorization.
FCC Plans Stealth Internet Tax Increase - Forbes
I know that the tax can be applied. Will it? Can't our Republican-controlled congress pass a bill exempting internet access from our tax? Why does everyone act like the specifics are already set in stone?
:dohPlease explain using specifics how innovation will be stifled by the FCC upholding net neutrality. No generalities, no vague buzzwords, no more evasions and non-answers...specifics. Walk us through this.
Net neutrality is the de facto way the Internet has always been. It seems to have worked out tremendously well for us. I don't know why you are against government stopping unnatural, non-free market telecommunications monopolies from changing the way the Internet works (something they couldn't do if they competed on a free market) at the expense of competitors like Netflix and Hulu.
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