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 gheezerCompooters R UsPremium
join:2002-12-20
Henrietta, NY | Am I alone in this? or does ANYONE else think like I do, that it's a very very bad idea for MY Government to be managing my telecommunications and television and entertainment habits?
I mean, if My Government Builds and Runs the network, then they can also DICTATE my behavior on that network. That scares the living $h!t out of me.
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|  | | Re: Am I alone in this? But letting the dickheads at Qworst run your network doesn't scare you??????
Get a grip!!!!!
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| | gheezerCompooters R UsPremium
join:2002-12-20
Henrietta, NY | Re: Am I alone in this? I prefer to allow qwest to either shape up or die out. Compete or fold, let the market dictate, not my government. 'cause even more so than qwest, my government is loaded with self serving dickheads too.
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| | Versus what? Telecoms going to the government consistently and asking for tax breaks, incentives, and more deregulation of telecommunications so they could start offering a new product to selective areas. By giving into companies by providing them with all listed above, aren't they already dictating in some small way you telecommunications and entertainment options by helping support monopolies in respective states?
If it takes a municipality or a collective of them to start providing broadband in some form or flavor to all purple areas of the country (Red and blue states, areas where broadband is not available in either), I am in favor of it. | |
| | | | Re: Am I alone in this? If governments are going to start providing telecom services, without charging themselves the same tax rates that private companies are required to pay, then the government should stop taxing the private companies. That just seems fair. As for deregulation, the same applies, as governments are able to exempt themselves from the same regulation that a private company is under.
BTW, in case nobody noticed, broadband of one sort or another is becoming more available all the time. Even the little bitty town in BF Idaho I live in (3200 people) got DSL last year. That doesn't count the 3 different wireless providers that were here first. And that wireless can go further out of town than DSL. | |
| | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | Re: Am I alone in this? If government is so worried about providing broadband to the masses, then the should be spending more time encouraging growth and not competing in it.
When a city wants more business available in it's town, do they
1) Fund and buy their own McDonald franchise?
2) Offer insentives for the private sector to come in and open that McDonalds.
Answer - #2
It ultimately costs more for government to get involved in operating a business than it does for government to make insentives for private business to do so.
Why isn't the government offering Qwest, or??, an insentive to expand with tax credits or other insentives which ultimately solves the problem and also generates more tax revenue from the private market place..
Want a classic example of how this workd? Look at South Dakota. Great place to open a business right now.. Same with North Dakota. (Please, don't respond with the lame "yea, but who wants to live THERE" statement - becuase you would only prove that you don't understand how the government is supposed to work) | |
| | | |  tapeloopNot bad at all, really.Premium
join:2004-06-27
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kudos:1 | Re: Am I alone in this? said by fiberguy:If government is so worried about providing broadband to the masses, then the should be spending more time encouraging growth and not competing in it. When a city wants more business available in it's town, do they 1) Fund and buy their own McDonald franchise? 2) Offer insentives for the private sector to come in and open that McDonalds. Answer - #2 It ultimately costs more for government to get involved in operating a business than it does for government to make insentives for private business to do so. Why isn't the government offering Qwest, or??, an insentive to expand with tax credits or other insentives which ultimately solves the problem and also generates more tax revenue from the private market place.. Because of course that technique worked wonders for PA and Verizon. 
Want a classic example of how this workd? Look at South Dakota. Great place to open a business right now.. Same with North Dakota. (Please, don't respond with the lame "yea, but who wants to live THERE" statement - becuase you would only prove that you don't understand how the government is supposed to work) Yeah, changing those usury laws will do that. Worked for Iowa and Delaware too. And yet, despite the two lowest unemployment rates in the US, people are still movin' out en masse:
»www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsre···thbi.htm
»www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200···er_x.htm
So the question "Who wants to live there?" is apt. | |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | honestly trusting a corperation or the government with ones communications is an equal risk venture. the government wants to spy and see who might be a terrorist and the corperation wants to sell all your private data to the highest bidder. i think ill trust the feds, as im not a criminal.
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