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To: PROCON

Net neutrality will require a new tax right off the bat.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/17/fcc-official-warns-obama-backed-net-neutrality-plan-will-bring-backdoor-tax-on/


12 posted on 11/17/2014 5:24:53 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL
If it requires a tax, it's not actually net neutrality.

Net neutrality is a pro-market regulation that prevents content-providers who also own ISPs from establishing what was once called a "vertical trust" and using their dual position as content providers (already holding a government granted monopoly called "copyright" on specific content) and ISPs to simultaneously disadvantage competing content providers and competing ISPs. Yes, it's a regulation, but it's regulation that has the effect of preventing incumbents in the market from keeping out entrepreneurial start-ups, rather than a regulation that either makes business infeasible in some way or cements the position of incumbents in the market against competition. (Again, everyone who hasn't, read Sarah Palin's favorite Chicago-School economist's popularization of his scholarly work entitled A Capitalism for the People, to learn the difference between pro-market and pro-business.)

Either Cruz really doesn't know what he's talking about on this, or he's trying to burnish his credentials with the Chamber-of-Commerce-RINO wing of the party in penance for opposing them on amnesty, by staking out a position that only big telecom companies really support.

34 posted on 11/17/2014 5:58:13 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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