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  • Snowe Supports Expanding Fee to Increase Broadband Access (RINO Snowe wants to raise your taxes)

    10/25/2010 4:45:37 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 35 replies
    The Maine Republican senator says like the telephone, the Internet is a basic service that everyone should have access to. Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she favors expanding the reach of a "fee" that's been charged for years on telephone customers. Snowe and other members of Congress support adding the fee to cable and wireless phone bills to raise money to assure broadband Internet access in rural areas. "I've been a big advocate of making sure that rural communities have access to broadband," she says. "Because it's similar to telephone service, and what the Telecommunications Act was all about...