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Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:13 pm
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TL;DR: ISPs have stolen 400 billion from us and the assfricking has just begun.
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By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up. And though it varies by state, counting the taxes, fees and surcharges that you have paid every month (many of these fees are actually revenues to the company or taxes on the company that you paid), it comes to about $4000-$5000.00 per household from 1992-2014, and that’s the low number.
You were also charged about nine times to wire the schools and libraries via state and federal plans designed to help the phone and cable companies. And if that doesn’t bother you, by year-end of 2010, and based on the commitments made by the phone companies in their press statements, filings on the state and federal level, and the state-based ‘alternative regulation’ plans that were put in place to charge you for broadband upgrades of the telephone company wire in your home, business, as well as the schools and libraries — America, should have been the world’s first fully fibered, leading edge broadband nation.
In fact, in 1992, the speed of broadband, as detailed in state laws, was 45 Mbps in both directions — by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps).
TL;DR: ISPs have stolen 400 billion from us and the assfricking has just begun.
This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:14 pm to JohnnyKilroy
Does AL Gore get a royalty off that?
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:16 pm to JohnnyKilroy
You mean to tell me that a tax wasn't used for it's intended purpose?
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:17 pm to JohnnyKilroy
August probably wouldn't have killed herself.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:17 pm to JohnnyKilroy
I'm sure the politicians on both sides of the aisle will demand swift and brutal hearings.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:17 pm to JohnnyKilroy
We should probably give them the right to censor the internet, that'll show them.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:19 pm to fightin tigers
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I'm sure the politicians on both sides of the aisle will demand swift and brutal hearings.
Probably just hire their employees to oversee the entity tasked with regulating them
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:21 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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TL;DR: ISPs have stolen 400 million from us and the assfricking has just begun.
$400 billion bro.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:22 pm to JohnnyKilroy
Good thing our gubment wouldn’t do something so dumb like legally let them frick us even more...
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:23 pm to slackster
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$400 billion bro.
good catch. fixed
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:25 pm to fightin tigers
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I'm sure the politicians on both sides of the aisle will demand swift and brutal hearings.
Those are always fun.
No one has answers, no one can recall anything, and nothing will get accomplished.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:26 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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American people have been charged some $400 billion by telecom companies (at the insistence of government)
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:26 pm to upgrayedd
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No one has answers, no one can recall anything, and nothing will get accomplished.
Your local politician will get some facetime on TV to send to the local TV station so everyone knows he is fighting hard for his constituency.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:28 pm to JohnnyKilroy
And the taxes paid for gas are supposed to fix the roads.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:28 pm to fightin tigers
I love the 6 minute long lead-ins to every question
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:28 pm to JohnnyKilroy
I don't see where the tax was earmarked for that. The source is a link to "The Book of Broken Promises"....which doesn't exactly seem like a strong source.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:29 pm to JohnnyKilroy
It sucks, but it's not like it's a tax you, me, and the rest of America couldn't have avoided.
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:31 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps).
I get gigabit speeds up and down at home
Posted on 1/4/18 at 6:36 pm to jennyjones
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I get gigabit speeds up and down at home
Congrats on the Google Fiber.
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