 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | reply to Scatcatpdx
Re: Here We Go Again here's a newsflash: the market has failed. broadband in this country is slow and expensive, compared to other industrialized countries.
answer me this: are you also against muni projects? those are technically "government" built and run but the incumbents, aka "the market", could give a rats ass about being competitive until there is any kind of threat of competition. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to XBL2009
Don't blame our military who I support. However the money that has gone to private contractors (corporate welfare and mercenaries) in Iraq makes the TVA sinkhole look like a pittance. IMHO it would have easily been enough to subsidize fiber to ever single U.S. home. |
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I never said "I want to punish those greedy people" and you haven't shown me any good argument why there shouldn't be an inheritance tax.
so I guess we're even - you have a slogan and I have facts. |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by nasadude:I never said "I want to punish those greedy people" and you haven't shown me any good argument why there shouldn't be an inheritance tax. I have already presented the argument, it is personal freedom. The freedom to dispose of one's property in a matter of one's own choosing trumps any other counter-argument.
If these individuals on the other hand wish for the government to have their money upon their death, there is nothing stopping them from leaving it to the government.
You, and those in this thread who support the death tax, are just as greedy as the "evil megacorps" who you despise so much.
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 major marcoRes Firma Mitescere NescitPremium
join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA | said by pnh102:You, and those in this thread who support the death tax, are just as greedy as the "evil megacorps" who you despise so much. Not quite. Evil megacorps get to keep their billions no matter what because a corporation is not a living being. Meanwhile, the Paris Hiltons of the U.S. continue to inherit mommy & daddy's billions untaxed. Call this program what it really is. The Paris Hilton inheritance act. Saving heirs from ever having to pay any kind of tax on their inherited billions. Just like their parents before them.
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by major marco:Meanwhile, the Paris Hiltons of the U.S. continue to inherit mommy & daddy's billions untaxed. So what?
If you do not like Paris Hilton receiving an inheritance, then your quarrel is with her benefactors. My children should not have to pay death taxes on what I give to them simply because of selfish and greedy people who think that the government should own people after they die.
Hopefully I will exploit every loophole I can find so that my children pay no death tax because of me.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to major marco
said by major marco:Meanwhile, the Paris Hiltons of the U.S. continue to inherit mommy & daddy's billions untaxed. Call this program what it really is. The Paris Hilton inheritance act. Saving heirs from ever having to pay any kind of tax on their inherited billions. Just like their parents before them. hmmm? inheritance?
»www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/us/27···f=slogin
There is a reason why she has made so many TV shows and is trying to be a personality, because she needs to earn her own fortune, since she will inherit only a couple 10 million dollars putting her in the poor house, |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to karlmarx
Rich people will hide all their money, or simply keep all their money with their job, and have an unlimited credit card from their job benefits account. If you want to get rid of rich people, put an annual salery/income cap on people in this country. Lets say everything you earn over 1 million goes to the government, then we can all live poor and nobody can make a fortune in the bank unless they pull 6 digits and live in a trailer park. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Scatcatpdx
said by Scatcatpdx:Excuse me but if there is a market for the service the market will make it available. I been to small town where a guy brought in a few T-1 lines and sell WI-FI to his neighbors. No need for a government to business subsidy to make brodband available. A few T1s. Hmm, thats some pretty bad oversubscribtion. $400 a month per T1 at the cheapest. So thats $1600-$2400 per month. Someone is being quite a charity if he isn't charging $50-$100 a month for each customer. |
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icawn
join:2008-01-24
Columbia, MO | uh when i lived in a small town a few years ago, local cable internet became available. the source was 1 T1. 512/256 cap per customer and there were roughly 50 customers when i left. it was not oversubscribed, performance and latency did not degrade and i spent 8 hours a day on the internet. $30/mo
far from charity, try mass profit. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by icawn:uh when i lived in a small town a few years ago, local cable internet became available. The internet was differnt back then. No miles of CSS and HTML code and Javascript "libraries" (still nobody uses HTTP compression). No Flash video players. Video conferancing/Video IMing has gone up. Online gaming. P2P. Remote backups. Ajax driven map websites (images by the metric ton). Google Earth. Itunes. Video offerings by Cable TV/OTA networks on their websites. |
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