Posted on 01/16/2015 8:55:08 AM PST by servo1969
The White House dropped a bombshell on Thursday by announcing that FCC already has the authority to take over regulating and taxing the Internet without Congressional approval.
Under “network neutrality” proceedings, the FCC could extend its 16.1% fee on interstate telecommunications services and relay fees to the Internet. The action would more than double the “universal service” revenue it collected in 2014, from $8 billion to $16 billion.
Although Congress has mandated the general nature of the federal universal service fund and telecommunications relay services, it is the FCC that has the sole authority to set the budget size and the fee structure to perform its regulatory mandate.
The FCC last year announced an ambitious multi-billion program to connect schools and libraries with Wi-Fi. Other advocates are also seeking expansion of low-income subsidies for the “Obamaphone” to include Internet access programs.
But the FCC had not moved forward on its social agenda due to a perceived lack of congressional jurisdiction, and due to the need for a significant revenue source to defray the huge costs.
Implementing network neutrality proceedings without addressing huge opposition from congressional conservatives and personal liberty advocates would be a game changer.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Obama: And I dare the first racist to try and stop me!
It’s WAY past time for a major cyber attack on these tyrants.
Heck, I’d be happy if people would just visits their facilities and clog the toilets with paper.
Great. EVERYTHING is connected to the internet. And this idiot bastard is going to drive the cost of EVERYTHING up if he taxes it. Cloward-Piven.
The King pronounces the powers of the government, and the Constitution is simply a brittle old document.
Aren’t Emperor’s allowed to make law and tax as they see fit? I don’t see the problem, Adolf was allowed by his Government also to unilaterally make Laws and Tax as he saw fit.
This son of a bitch has the power to do whatever he wants until congress impeaches him and the senate convicts him.
And since that branch of government has completely abandoned all of its legitimate functions, the son of a bitch has the power to do whatever he wants.
The federal government is completely out of control.
And when the congress completely surrenders that power, and every other power, to the executive branch, then the executive branch has it.
When those we elect to power completely ignore the constitution, then there is no constitution.
There, fixed it for ya'
The law is what Obama says it is!
The Constitution means nothing to these people
And it's our fault. We do nothing. We continue to vote for the pols that enable this...we sit back quietly and do nothing else to stop it.
Let's see how all the Liberal idiots in America's academia respond to THIS
In the old America when laws were actually enforced this POS in the WH would have been removed long before now.
Exactly!
The federal government is completely out of control.
5.56mm
Wow, the dude is completely gone Hugo Chavez and aint nobody willing to try and stop him.
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