Posted on 05/09/2022 12:17:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
My adjusted household income is slightly above the level required to receive this subsidy. Therefore we are condemned to pay $60 for 50 mbps service with Century Link.
Not that I’m complaining, because just a year ago we were paying $70 for 5 mbps service.
I’ve had it for months. They recoup nothing. They take the money and up your bill. Its an excuse to get a federal hand out for telecoms and bill you the same as before the ‘handout’ - other customers don’t pay more, just the ones the bill is supposed to help.
I’m not sure what that number is, but the ‘poor’ need high speed internet to watch porn. It’s their right, just like smoking pot and killing babies.
Coming soon, a thirty dollar white privilege tax on your internet provider’s bill.
Whoa!
Yes, tax dollars can be used to buy volume-discounted, high-speed internet access for everybody.
But such a service needs to be worked through state social spending programs, not run with unconstitutional federal taxes. (Otherwise, appropriately amend Constitution.)
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
More specifically, please note that Justice Joseph Story had indicated that welfare (poor laws) is a state power issue, not the business of desperate, federal elite Democrats.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphases added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The problems is that the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress keeps stealing state revenues and citizens' wallets by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional, Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Otherwise stated, the states are unthinkingly relying on the corrupt feds returning state revenues stolen by the feds, unconstitutional "strings" attached to so-called "federal" funding, in order to run their states.
Corrections, insights welcome.
The remedy for unconstitutionally big, alleged election-stealing federal government oppressing everybody under their boots...
Patriots need to work with new, 2023 midterm state lawmakers endorsed by Trump to eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues.
And to make the elimination of unconstitutional federal taxes permanent, patriots need to continue supporting their new state lawmakers to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Again, insights welcome.
At $10 they are still raping these folks. Crap speeds is what you get despite big number boasts.
Must expand the brainwashing/watching infrastructure..
Great price Brandon!
Now do gasoline
So, basically the gov will set a floor on the price of internet service. This is just like taxi regs.
“Maybe 5G will eventually come to the area.”
Do you have 4G there? Verizon has a 4G service of 25 to 50 mbps for 50 bucks a month.
“I wouldn’t want 100 if they paid me. Lol. This is a hoot.”
Say what? How many people in your house are on at one time? My wife and I have no trouble streaming 4k movies at 50mbps.
My income makes no difference, the infrastructure doesn’t exist, so without “over $20,000” build-out fee I have nothing but satellite (which has not worked all year...) or weak cell phone.
yes
I am eligible, and I have current service and it costs 100 per month for internet only. I live where there is no other way to get television but with cable or internet. That is highway robbery. If competition was allowed by government, I would be getting service for approximately $30 a month anyway. A proper government state or local would REQUIRE transmitters to reach outliers like my locale, of FCC licensed stations who are allowed a monopoly on the airwaves.
Libraries are still closed.
Libraries are still closed.
Where I live Century Link offers 5MBpS for around $60 per.....the cost to have a line to the house is about triple that $60.
We were lucky, in that a small regional company has popped up to compete with Century Link.
A month before Peak began construction of infrastructure to my rural area, they suddenly ran a 3/4 gig line and began offering much faster service before Peak could. A large company like Century can build much faster than a small regional.
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