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> As a United States Citizen, I wouldn't mind providing subsidies and incentives for an internet company to expand internet connectivity. We already did, to th
by Casseres 8y ago
> As a United States Citizen, I wouldn't mind providing subsidies and incentives for an internet company to expand internet connectivity.
We already did, to the tune of somewhere between 100 to 400 billion dollars in tax breaks in the 1990s for fiber that they never delivered.
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- __jal 8y agoNot to mention the seemingly endless series of subsidies at the city level, in return for bupkis. Some examples having to do with one connectivity slumlord: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decades-failed-promises-verizon-it-promises-fiber-to-get-tax-breaks-then-never-delivers.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...
- rayiner 8y agoRead the actual source of those claims. It’s not “100 to 400 billion in tax breaks.” See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556.