Republicans Defeat Net Neutrality Proposal

LiquidEdge writes "A Republican controlled committee has defeated a bill that would have guaranteed fair access and stopped companies like AT&T and Verizon from charging high-bandwidth sites for allowing their customers to have priority access to them."

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Punk Bitches

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We know how they roll...

Dollars and Sense

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America is broke. America is deeply in debt. America sells protection. Luckily protection frequently breeds violence which calls for protection. The selling of protection drives the old military industrial complex put in place after WWII, and, aptly characterized by John Kenneth Galbraith. The revenue needed to fund the military industrial complex derives, for the most part, from tax revenue. Unfortunately the tax base in America isn't up to the job.

The need to derive more tax dollars is driving the patent insanity and the rigging of markets requiring market participants to pay twice or more for the same service. The fascist like coupling of monopolies and government is driven on the side of government by a mad need for revenue and control.

Selling protection and rigging markets requires luddite thugs be put in power. It's really a question of whether the rest of the industrialized world will go along. My guess is the rest of the industrialized world will go along as long as there's no alternative. The world will prop up the American domestic market and in doing so will prop up the military industrial complex.

The short term policies driving markets that push pollutants and climatic change will be changed, at best surperficially, because alternatives require recognizing that America is broke. And waking from the American dream will be a nightmare.