said by Fox McCloud:This program is going to cost taxpayers (or already has) millions, if not billions...simply because Congress thought it was "better" to force everyone to switch over to 100% digital.
They should have let the market-place work; you'd likely have analogue and digital broadcasts running parallel for years...and by the time things were 100% digital, there would only be a few percentage points of the population that would be effected, and have to get converter boxes.
But no...government
always knows best....
also, this is an example example of what happens when you subsidize something; when you make something really cheap/free via government money, you only get more of it...and low and behold, it also causes shortages and other problems...big surprise.
It cost the taxpayers $5 billion but the government will resell the spectrum for $50+ billion and turn a tidy profit.
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