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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: 5, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:03AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:03AM (#605441)

    you should be excited about figuring out how society could be organized to have as little coercion as possible.

    I'd rather be excited about figuring out how to stop, or even slow down society from moving inexorably against the interests of the majority, against the welfare of future generations (who will, in all likelihood outnumber us), and against the welfare of the environment which is, after all, the source and sustainer of humanity.

    After all that, yeah, coercion is in there somewhere... was somebody extraordinarily coerced as a child?

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