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| Tax breaks aren't working then... Tax breaks on broadband providers won't affect the profitability much. It's still more profitable for them to sell more services in the rich areas than spread out to rural/poor areas, tax break or not.
Instead, spend subsidies on the expensive part, the infrastructure building. Then its not unprofitable to sell service over the infrastructure. The bonus is that since the government built it, they can put open access requirements on it, and companies can compete without one footing the infrastructure bill. | |
| These companies are in business to make money I for one with investments like to see that not change. Installing and selling in the richer neighborhoods makes fiscal sense. Thankfully we live in a constitutional republic with a free market economy, we do not need the government involved in Internet connectivity issues at all nor should there be any sort of subsidies offered at my dollars expense. Lower tax rates benefit everyone, companies are not tax payers they are tax collectors, raise the already high corporate tax rates, these companies just increase the cost of their services to us, a lose-lose situation. We have far too many government benefits programs now in this country time to cut people lose from that particular teat and let them swim or sink.
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| Sad but true, but.... the US is not a "free market". if it were a free market, the SEC would not exist, the Federal Reserve would not exist, we would not have roads/telephone/electricity/running water in rural areas, just to name a few things.
the united states is not a "Constitutional Free market". it IS however, a "Constitutional Socalist Democracy".
that said, however, i'm all for spending my tax dollars that we spend on...oh, i dunno, the outrageous salaries ex-higher ranking politicians (or any of the other outrageous things our gov't spends money on) on general infrastructure building in the US... | |
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Re: Tax breaks aren't working then... said by AmericanPatriot :
These companies are in business to make money I for one with investments like to see that not change. Installing and selling in the richer neighborhoods makes fiscal sense. Thankfully we live in a constitutional republic with a free market economy, we do not need the government involved in Internet connectivity issues at all nor should there be any sort of subsidies offered at my dollars expense. Lower tax rates benefit everyone, companies are not tax payers they are tax collectors, raise the already high corporate tax rates, these companies just increase the cost of their services to us, a lose-lose situation. We have far too many government benefits programs now in this country time to cut people lose from that particular teat and let them swim or sink.
Living large in Colorado
"I have what I want, to hell with the rest" ?  That reminds me of the cartoon I saw in the paper once-This very rich man says "why should he pay taxes and support things he doesn't need?!", he has everything he wants, his estate has security, fire alarms, etc, etc, what a waste he says. Well, one day his systems break down, a thief breaks into his house and it catches on fire, he calls the police and fire and gets a message "due to lack of funding, we are no longer able to serve you". In other words, if this nation only built what was "profitable"
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