The Fascism is here. :)
I didn’t realize that they had that constitutional power.
good now poor americans can watch porn on the taxpayers dime.../s
I guess I’m in a super minority nowadays. Were I to have a household incoming of 25k or less, a smart phone, internet access - hell, a land-line phone, would be the *last* things on my mind.
How about food, rent, water, lights, and FINDING A BETTER JOB.
Yes, yes, I know.
That means they will also get a free ObamaComputer, otherwise how will they connect.
I already pay taxes for the local library to have it available to everyone who needs it.
So much for the division of powers.
Glad I’m not paying for that.
I assume this will be subsidized by a “lifeline” fee on current users.
It all comes from the same pot - the USF.
That “pot” was worth billions until GWBush allowed cell phones. It immediately went into the red.
Who pays into the pot ? Anybody with a phone line that’s not subsidized.
Based on the rewrite that now considers broadband as a utility, I’m guessing some sort of tax will be put on Internet service that will go into the USF pot.
Obamaphone has now morphed into Obamanet, despite the FCC not having jurisdiction.
Let the scams begin.
As FReepers read this post, please bear in mind that the FCC’s constitutionally indefensible actions are a consequence of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A) imo. More about 17A shortly.
Regarding FCC subsidized broadband connections, not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for such a purpose, but consider the following.
The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected bureaucrats like those running the FCC and the EPA. So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative / regulatory powers whether it wants it or not imo.
And by delegating such powers to non-elected bureaucrats —powers that Congress doesn’t have — corrupt Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above imo.
Getting back to 17A, the basic reason that the FCC is getting away with buying votes for Democrats by subsidizing broadband connections is this imo. Corrupt senators did not do their job to protect their states by killing the constitutionally indefensible House appropriations bill(s) (1.7.1) which helped to establish such funds.
In fact, the Senate wrongly ignored its option to lead Congress to propose an appropriate amendment to the Constitution to the states (Article V) to properly establish this broadband connections project within the framework of the Constitution. And if the states had chosen to ratify the amendment then Congress, not the FCC, would have had the constitutional authority to vote to subsidize Internet broadband connections to win votes for Democrats.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt senators and Constitution-ignoring federal bureaucrats along with it.
Don’t they already pay for this with their EBT cards?
No. These parasites have no right to use our money to pay for their Obamaphones, Obamacare, and now ObamaInternet. Welfare should be short-term, it should focus on bridging a temporary gap until the unfortunate person can find any work, and it should provide only an absolute minimum of benefits. I’ve used library Internet, when necessary, and it works without welfare. It’s just less convenient.
Without the broadband fiber the big screen TV don’t work right...
Administrative agencies imposing taxation (in any guise) is tyranny.
Tag line...what else to say?
Well here we go. A computer in every pot.
SINCE WHEN CAN A GOVERNMENT AGENCY TAX WE THE PEOPLE...???
the EPA, DOT, Interior, DOE and Education
are ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL
and the repubs should not fund them...
POWER OF THE PURSE RESTS WITH THE HOUSE AND ONLY THE HOUSE
comeon ohner flex your nuts if you have any...