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Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband"
Reader adeelarshad82 writes to lets us know that Spain has now codified a "Right to Broadband," thus following the lead of Finland. Spain's industry minister announced that citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband Internet access of at least 1 Mb/sec at a regulated price wherever they live. The telecoms operator holding the so-called "universal service" contract would have to guarantee it could offer "reasonably" priced broadband throughout Spain.
No. A tax that benefits every citizen, such as for a protective police force, is legitimate tax.
Taxes that only benefit ~5$ of the population (i.e. giving them free stuff), are illegitimate.
+1 insightful
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
I work my ass off earning money, as do nearly-all my neighbors. That's OUR money. We earned it. Why should we have to give-up our sweat & labor to somebody else? That's no different than if that person held me at gunpoint and mugged me. The only difference is he's using the government as his gun.
+ 1 brother
And no I don't think "all" taxes are theft. Taxes that are universally beneficial to every citizen, like funds for police to protect homes, are just fine with me. Also constitutional.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Um. Okay.
So like I said, this law VIOLATES human rights. It requires stealing money from your neighbors to fund the installation costs of broadband. That's an infringement upon their property and labor rights.
+1 well spoken man
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.