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FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
- jmcguckin 8y agoAnother disaster in the making. Just look at FUSF. It started at 6% and only applied to long distance calls. Now it's 18.3% and applies to all sorts of data services. The appetite for free money knows no bounds. joe
- olliej 8y agoSo the fcc opposes regulation, unless it’s taxes being paid to the carriers?
- pitaj 8y agoAs far as I can tell, it wasn't Ajit Pai that suggested this tax - it was an advisory committee within the FCC.
- cuteyellow 8y agoTax this dick
- devhead 8y agothey already pay for the service they use and are taxed on tha usage. This current FCC continues to prove they are terrible at regulation or logical conclusions.
- xemdetia 8y agoI feel that the most damning part of this suggested regulation is that it directly feeds into funds that already exist with no real evidence that the half a billion leaves us underfunded. There is also the idea that states/muni governments would make themselves less attractive for business to give that tax money to a subsidy fund... Instead of their local government monetary funds.
- deogeo 8y agoTax funded, corporate owned - the best of both worlds :/
- 8bitsrule 8y agoReminds me of an interesting century-old maneuver ... government-created, corporate owned ... when the US created RCA after WW1 by using a 'national security' argument to force British-owned 'American Marconi' to sell to US citizens. Which, to me, explains a lot about how RCA later treated later radio and TV pioneers.