 tschmidtPremium,MVM
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Re: This Program Deserves To Fail Coupon program is not taxpayer funded.
As part of the digital TV transition FCC auctioned UHF channels 52-69. Auction generated billions in revenue. To compensate people for making analog TV obsolete a small portion of this revenue is being used to fund the coupon program.
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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kudos:3 | said by tschmidt:Coupon program is not taxpayer funded.As part of the digital TV transition FCC auctioned UHF channels 52-69. Auction generated billions in revenue. To compensate people for making analog TV obsolete a small portion of this revenue is being used to fund the coupon program. /tom What Tom said...
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"SMALL portion of this revenue" |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to tschmidt
said by tschmidt:Coupon program is not taxpayer funded. If that is true (I don't believe that anything touched by Uncle Sam costs taxpayers nothing), then the buyers of the spectrum should have run the coupon program themselves, or better yet, just give the money to the companies making the boxes so they could be sold for less to begin with, instead of going through this coupon crap.
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axus
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Washington, DC | reply to tschmidt
That's like arguing that spending money from your checking account is different than spending money from your savings account |
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said by pnh102:.... snip ..., then the buyers of the spectrum should have run the coupon program themselves, or better yet, just give the money to the companies making the boxes so they could be sold for less to begin with, instead of going through this coupon crap. OMG, NO NO NO! The telcos bought most of the spectrum. They would have raped the public harder than the government. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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Oh cool! you're a comedian today too! lol
AT&T trusted to run a program that benefits the competition? hah! Seriously.. I am normally thinking the way you do.. but this one is way hard for me to support you on. |
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said by tschmidt:Coupon program is not taxpayer funded. As part of the digital TV transition FCC auctioned UHF channels 52-69. Auction generated billions in revenue. To compensate people for making analog TV obsolete a small portion of this revenue is being used to fund the coupon program. You have evidently interjected mitigating fact into a topic worthy of hate speak.
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Well it sounds like a great idea to me. We give AT&T the $80 per household. Let AT&T run the program, selling the boxes for the $9.99 difference in price between the "coupon" and the retail price. Then they can tack on a "box service fee", a "digital transition recovery fee", and a "paper billing fee", along with some taxes and a USF fee, bringing the customer's total back up to $49.99.
They can then use the surplus of funds to buy the next FCC head and commissioners the way they have with Martin, ensuring "consumer friendly" regulation for years to come.
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