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Obama Administration Eyes New Taxes, Fees for National Broadband Network
FOX NEWS ^ | April 6, 2010 | FOXNews.com

Posted on 04/06/2010 9:59:41 PM PDT by TCH

A massive national broadband plan the Federal Communications

Commission released last month proposes creating a national framework for the taxation of digital goods and services and imposing a fee to establish and maintain a national public safety wireless broadband network.

The Obama administration has a plan to expand online innovation and boost national public safety. And it wants to do it with more taxes and higher fees.

The massive national broadband plan the Federal Communications Commission released last month proposes creating a national framework for the taxation of digital goods and services and imposing a fee to establish and maintain a national public safety wireless broadband network. ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhotaxincrease; broadband; communications; internet; internettaxes; obama; taxes
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1 posted on 04/06/2010 9:59:42 PM PDT by TCH
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Only $250K earners, right?


2 posted on 04/06/2010 10:01:10 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: TCH

One thing about those Kenyans, they love the hell out of taxing people.


3 posted on 04/06/2010 10:01:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Kenya tax me just a little bit more? Well, Kenya?


4 posted on 04/06/2010 10:04:19 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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;o)


5 posted on 04/06/2010 10:05:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Ho hummmm.... what else is new?


6 posted on 04/06/2010 10:07:31 PM PDT by Republic Rocker
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The scary part comes at the very end of the article:

The FCC struck a defiant tone in its response to the ruling.

“Today’s court decision invalidated the prior Commission’s approach to preserving an open Internet,” FCC spokeswoman Jen Howard said in a written statement. “But the Court in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet; nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end.”


7 posted on 04/06/2010 10:08:28 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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FCC spokesman Robert Kenny told FoxNews.com that the actual fee would be less than a dollar per month for broadband consumers.

NO SALE!

8 posted on 04/06/2010 10:08:29 PM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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This Kenyan Klowntard will tax everything by the end of this term.


9 posted on 04/06/2010 10:09:03 PM PDT by max americana
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To: TCH

I was just thinking that taxes are too low....


10 posted on 04/06/2010 10:11:01 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: onyx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk

Maitre D: And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.
Mr Creosote: No.

Maitre D: Oh sir! It’s only a tiny little thin one.
Mr Creosote: No. F*** off - I’m full...

Maitre D: Oh sir... it’s only wafer thin.

Mr Creosote: Look - I couldn’t eat another thing. I’m absolutely stuffed. Bugger off.

Maitre D: Oh sir, just... just one...

Mr Creosote: Oh all right. Just one.

Maitre D: Just the one, sir... voila... bon appetit...

(As the Maitre D’ takes cover, Mr. Creosote swallows the mint, expands and then blows up dramatically, spewing vomit on everyone and showing his open rib cage and still beating heart.)

Maitre D: Thank you, sir, and now the check.

— Monty Pythons The Meaning Of Life


11 posted on 04/06/2010 10:11:47 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !)
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To: onyx

And that’s how they start, don’t they. Less than a dollar today, couple years from now, $2, then $3, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.


12 posted on 04/06/2010 10:15:55 PM PDT by psjones (u)
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To: TCH

LOL. Exactly!


13 posted on 04/06/2010 10:18:09 PM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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To: psjones

Right. Very much like a ‘temporary’ tax, which never goes away.
This is a bullsh&t idea. Kill it now.


14 posted on 04/06/2010 10:20:03 PM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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To: TCH

Soon the RATS be taxing air and people with big noses will really be paying...well, through their...noses!


15 posted on 04/06/2010 10:20:15 PM PDT by MissyMack66
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To: TCH

O is your basic thief disguised as a politician. If there is a way to extract cash from people he will find it. Where it will actually end up is any body’s guess. My guess is laundered into private bank accounts, used to give companies large unnecessary contracts with who knows what as kickbacks and to perform general bribes and pandering. Also most likely much is being held back or even presently put to work to promote O. internationally and help finance military at his becken call. I extremely doubt that what is extracted from the American public will ever be returned in services etc.


16 posted on 04/06/2010 10:22:19 PM PDT by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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To: TCH

OMG, when will the madness cease?


17 posted on 04/06/2010 10:23:41 PM PDT by dila813
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Articles of Impeachment should be drawn up for our Clown-in-Chief and put on stand-by for November.


18 posted on 04/06/2010 10:24:52 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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The man wants to ram his communist spread the wealth plans through, take us to the brink of bankruptcy.....and then raise taxes “for the good of the country”.

Alinsky said that if things get bad enough the people will take anything you give them. NOT if you’re self-sufficient!They really count on their followers as being just a bunch of greedy idiots, don’t they?


19 posted on 04/06/2010 10:28:35 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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...to establish and maintain a national public safety wireless broadband network.

Next he will tax Talk Radio for the sake of "national public safety."

Censor the Internet for the sake of "national public safety."

High tax on ammo sales for the sake of "national public safety."

Suspend the November mid-terms for the sake of "national public safety."

20 posted on 04/06/2010 10:34:47 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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