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Get Ready for $11 Billion in 'Net Neutrality' Taxes
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 03/09/2015 | Staff

Posted on 04/10/2015 5:48:43 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

romises: Not long after FCC chairman Tom Wheeler swore that the FCC takeover of the Internet wouldn't result in new taxes or fees, it appears likely that new taxes will show up on Internet bills in the near future.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fcc; fees; internets; internettax; netneutrality; taxes
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To: Paul46360

1989s 9600 baud dial-up and CompuServe BBS was a hoot. Not.


81 posted on 04/10/2015 7:30:04 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're just the bug.)
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To: IBD editorial writer
Has anyone heard of Satellites? /s

Unless the leftists are going to shoot down or jam satellites providing Internet access...........

What's the problem?

And before you ask.....the U.S. providers will move offshore and thousands more will be launching satellites to cater to the USSA ‘market’.

82 posted on 04/10/2015 7:56:57 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (STERILIZE OBOLA VOTERS)
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To: IBD editorial writer

anyone know what the new rules are yet or are they still secret ? LOL


83 posted on 04/10/2015 7:59:48 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Rich21IE

...if it isn’t reported on CNN...it didn’t happen!


An interesting side note: We gave our dvd copy of Newsies to my daughter over ten years ago. We just got the blue ray version and watched it a few weeks ago.

At one point, the newsies are striking against the papers but they can get no traction because the papers are not covering it. Their friend who is a reporter for a small papers sez to them: “If the papers don’t report it, it didn’t happen.”

In the end the find an old printing press and print up thousands of one page copies of an article reporting the story. And the good guys win.

Today, that one page article’s equivalent is the internet blogs and other sites telling us what CNN and the NYT won’t.

It’s making a difference.


84 posted on 04/10/2015 8:04:26 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Lazamataz

They want, want, want.

And the miser in hell wanted ice water.

Yawn. Cheer for God (”who can destroy both body and soul in hell”) and stop worrying about what some mortals want.


85 posted on 04/10/2015 8:11:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: drypowder; IBD editorial writer

Barry Farber 9/10> Mr. President learn from Ceausescu! http://www.wnd.com/2010/10/211825/


86 posted on 04/10/2015 8:13:07 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Lazamataz

“Chortle”... Oh, now you’re just talking jabberwocky...


87 posted on 04/10/2015 8:15:24 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Obadiah
"Don’t we have control of Congress?"

Try talking to your Congresscritter. Try asking a question. Try any contact at all. They insulate themselves from the Hoi Polloi because the HP is dirty, unwashed and dumb.

88 posted on 04/10/2015 8:34:56 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: dennisw

This traitorous puke will be out in less than two years

*************

I wouldn’t bet on that. Does anyone think the Republicans would actually do anything to prevent him from extending his term under the guise of a fabricated national crisis? Despite their promises, they have done absolutely nothing to curb Obama’s excesses. Nothing at all.

As long as the Republicans can keep their cushy jobs, get their big checks from the taxpayers, and retire comfortably they don’t give a rat’s ass about what Obama does.


89 posted on 04/10/2015 8:39:57 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: dware

Most people in this country are like the proverbial frog in the pot who doesn’t see the flame under it. Congress is watching the flame and in some cases, increasing it.


90 posted on 04/10/2015 8:47:20 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: IBD editorial writer

I’ve got to go and dispense some ass-kickings to a bunch of 0bamabots who LOL’ed at me when net neutrality passed. This is gonna be fun... ;)


91 posted on 04/10/2015 8:48:01 AM PDT by W. (3 Disqus sites, nytimes.com, cheezburger.com and archive.org all censor conservatives.)
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To: Starboard

Congress has allowed it


92 posted on 04/10/2015 9:15:13 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: W.
I’ve got to go and dispense some ass-kickings to a bunch of 0bamabots who LOL’ed at me when net neutrality passed. This is gonna be fun... ;)

Well, you better hurry, because it will be a felony to criticize the government soon enough.

93 posted on 04/10/2015 9:47:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: cuban leaf

You’re quite correct, it is making a difference and it has made a big difference.

That’s why the Progressives, who I believe to be more like Fascists, will find ways to muzzle the internet blogs and independent news sites. They absolutely must and have to control the narrative! Its what they have. The narrative, the language used in that narrative and the double speak are their primary weapons.


94 posted on 04/10/2015 9:48:44 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: Starboard
I wouldn’t bet on that. Does anyone think the Republicans would actually do anything to prevent him from extending his term under the guise of a fabricated national crisis?

Hell, why bother with a fabricated national crisis?

Republicans wouldn't do a thing to him, if he simply wrote an Executive Order that overturned the 22nd Amendment of Presidential Term Limits. "No Federal Agency shall enforce, fund enforcement, or prosecute any violation of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. By my hand, Barack Obama."

Then he could go on to his 3rd, 4th, and.. aw hell, just dispense with the elections. Costly, and give too much hope to the masses.

95 posted on 04/10/2015 9:52:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

You underestimate the left. They will literally kill those satellites, and/or jam the transmissions.


96 posted on 04/10/2015 9:53:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You forget that a period of time, evil reigns on Earth.

Personally, I observe we are plum in the middle of it.

During that time, those things 'they want' will be attainable by them.

97 posted on 04/10/2015 9:55:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Chickensoup

Well, you see, we promote certain candidates here and “they” will decide this is unregistered campaigning.

Additionally we’re quite critical of Socialist policies and just like the IRS probing over 230 conservative groups, FR will run into manufactured problems.

The Nazis will find an excuse to shut us down.


98 posted on 04/10/2015 10:27:16 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: sauropod

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircrack-ng


99 posted on 04/10/2015 2:37:40 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Lazamataz

I suppose you can get the intenet invoice and set your autodebit to pay only the service portion of the bill.

But your ISP will just say you are in arrears evenually.

maybe piggybacking on a leftists WiFi is an option
that many will try.With the tax will come a definite improvement in the software to do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircrack-ng

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/


100 posted on 04/10/2015 2:41:40 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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