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Possible Taxes For Broadband Users
Morganis101 writes "CNET News reports that some broadband users might have to endure new universal service taxes. From the article: 'The suggestions came as lawmakers started debating changes to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which created the framework for the Universal Service Fund. The USF should continue to be industry funded, but the base of contributors should be expanded to all providers of two-way communications, regardless of technology used, to ensure competitive neutrality, a bipartisan coalition of rural legislators said in a June 28 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, which will be drafting the rewrites. That means companies providing broadband services such as VoIP over telephone wires would also have to pay into the fund.'"
I never could have anticipated this.
The logic is:
They are the government. You have money. They want it.
Everything else is just rationalization.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
...that I'm using my neighbors WiFi network.
Network name: Linksys
No wep key...
Woo hoo! No cable fees for soft_guy!
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If this tax goes towards anything other than the service that is BEING taxed then maybe its time for a tea party.
Yeah, let's throw all our routing equipment into the nearest body of water! That'll show 'em!