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Get Ready for $11 Billion in 'Net Neutrality' Taxes
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 03/09/2015 | Staff

Posted on 04/10/2015 5:48:43 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

romises: Not long after FCC chairman Tom Wheeler swore that the FCC takeover of the Internet wouldn't result in new taxes or fees, it appears likely that new taxes will show up on Internet bills in the near future.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fcc; fees; internets; internettax; netneutrality; taxes
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To: IBD editorial writer

Everything the prog/commies touch turns to tax.


61 posted on 04/10/2015 6:54:18 AM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: IBD editorial writer
In a speech a few weeks before the FCC voted to approve its "net neutrality" rules, Chairman Tom Wheeler promised there would be "no tariffs, no new taxes" as a result.

Not for nothing, but if the average citizen did this they would be prosecuted for fraud.

62 posted on 04/10/2015 6:55:04 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 15 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Lazamataz

Get back to me after you’ve seen the troop exercises this summer in Operation Jade Helm.

And, they’ll do this like boiling the frog. The fees start out small and then go up gradually until people start dropping out. Incrementalizm.


63 posted on 04/10/2015 6:55:59 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: Lazamataz

It’s another way of saying “the proof is in the pudding” ... :-) ...

You’ve got two opinions between us and “both” are not right at the same time. There’s ONLY ONE WAY to “prove” which outcome is the one that is actually going to happen ... and that is “by it happening.”

I’m saying that it’s “my way” (that I explain”) which is going to happen and not yours. It’s as simple as that ... :-) ...


64 posted on 04/10/2015 6:58:36 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

No, their first business is to smash internet anonymity


65 posted on 04/10/2015 7:01:09 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Starboard

Yep, the Republican party is dead as far as I’m concerned. We have the Treason party and the Treason party running things.


66 posted on 04/10/2015 7:01:53 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 15 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Star Traveler
It’s another way of saying “the proof is in the pudding” ... :-) ...

The actual quote is, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating."

And this pudding has cyanide in it.

Once we get there, and we will, I will not be able to tell you I was right. We will all be silenced.

67 posted on 04/10/2015 7:04:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Starboard
Congress has been replaced by a pen and a phone.

And yet, here we sit, thumbs up our noses. WTF?

68 posted on 04/10/2015 7:05:30 AM PDT by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: Rich21IE
I didn't say this would be everyone's break point.

I'm not even saying it's mine.

If you get my drift here.

69 posted on 04/10/2015 7:05:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Rich21IE

I get all my “real” news off the internet, I have since I became a member of FR in 1998. My wife was actually accused of being ignorant by a person that admitted to getting ALL of their news of CNN - because she did not watch CNN.

The woman making the accusation is a liberal idiot. She listens to NOTHING you say if its source was not CNN.

It caused me to coin a phrase that applies to all too many of them: Arrogant ignorance.


70 posted on 04/10/2015 7:10:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Candor7

Hi.

You referenced “piggy back software.” Can you clue me in about this?

Thanks very much!

‘Pod.


71 posted on 04/10/2015 7:10:22 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: TurboZamboni

I frickin’ hate Commiecast.


72 posted on 04/10/2015 7:12:39 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Lazamataz

There are variations of that saying, and mine is one of those variations ... :-) ...

But ... regarding the actual subject ... it’s like all the arguing about the upcoming Presidential elections, which will be occupying a HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME for many Freepers here.

There is only ONE THING that will settle all the arguments about who will win the nomination, and then later ... the election. And that one thing is the election itself.

What I say with many of these arguments, when there is a disagreement about what will happen (and I have stated what I think will happen) ... is that I will wait and see. That is the ONLY WAY to “ know absolutely”.

I already have the opinion, now we wait for the “proof” of who has the right opinion. ... :-) ...


73 posted on 04/10/2015 7:13:04 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Dimocrats never miss a chance to tax anything. Birth?? Tax him all his life. Die?? Tax everything regarding him and his life.


74 posted on 04/10/2015 7:14:17 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: Pietro

Which control comes at limiting the packets; thus, making access onerous to the users, thereby pushing viewership away and drying up the money.


75 posted on 04/10/2015 7:14:47 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And this is exactly why the government under whatever guise they find useful, make every attempt to disarm the public. Either outright or instinctively they know if they keep pushing this crap down our throats over and over, sooner or later something is going to give.

There appears to be something in human nature, what makes them want to control everything and in order to do so more often than not it takes lots of money and the easiest way is by taxation. And as any nation matures and grows this problem keeps on growing and only gets worse. Until one day everything collapses and mankind is faced with another conflict.

After this, things may settle down for a while until everything starts anew and all over. Humans are strange creatures with the capacity to do some of the greatest things and some of the dumbest and most heinous things. Will the human race ever learn?

Maybe some day when our minds and spirits which are still way behind our technological advancements have reached the same level..... Think about it!


76 posted on 04/10/2015 7:15:28 AM PDT by saintgermaine (Is she somehow related)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Since when does “fair” have anything to do with it?


77 posted on 04/10/2015 7:16:21 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

I guess the people of old were much more astute about just what they expected from their King and what they would allow. When Kings would start taking too much from the people, Kings, their families and their henchmen were commonly beheaded or hung by those same people who were once subject victims. I surmise that in the day king obozo and his henchmen would been long dead by now.


78 posted on 04/10/2015 7:19:37 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: cuban leaf

That’s hilarious, but I believe it. It is absolutely amazing because for the Kool Aid drinking Leftists, if it isn’t reported on CNN...it didn’t happen!


79 posted on 04/10/2015 7:20:12 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: jsanders2001
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80 posted on 04/10/2015 7:26:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're just the bug.)
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