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Americans Taxed $400 Billion For Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist

posted by martyb on Monday December 04 2017, @08:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-shafted dept.

canopic jug writes:

For decades, people in the US have been given a song and dance by the telecoms about how tax cuts, surcharges, and a long list of other expenses are necessary for telecoms to "invest" in infrastructure. The concessions are granted again and again, but the investments are never actually made. In all, US taxpayers have paid $400 Billion in taxes and Internet surcharges for fiber optic upgrades that never happened.

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday December 04 2017, @10:23PM (3 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday December 04 2017, @10:23PM (#605354) Homepage Journal

    He's mad because government is the new God and you're committing deicide against his faith.

    There is no "god." There is just the universe and the collections of matter and energy within it, their interactions modulated by physical constants [physics.info].

    Is that you, Bruce Benson?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:46PM (#605615)

    It's clear you've been intellectually outclassed.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @06:57PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @06:57PM (#605755)

      Its funny, you think you're so superior yet the users on this site consistently mod you down. There should be enough libertarians / free market enthusiasts to mod you up, but I guess even they think you're full of shit.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @11:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @11:56PM (#605898)

        Give us until the UTC rollover. We spent our 10 mods points for the day before we got this far.

        Not all of us are as rabidly prolific as the resident authoritarians.