nitzanPremium,VIP
join:2008-02-27
kudos:2 | reply to tshirt
Re: Expand USF?? said by tshirt:maybe cheaper to offer education/opportunity to rural users than pay for years of support/food stamps/ prisons/etc. Not having fiber in their school does not equal not having an education. While I'm all for education - it should be subsidized by local citizens and NOT the entire country. I don't understand the whole robin-hood like mentality behind USF - basically collect taxes from the entire country to subsidize a very small portion of the population that CHOOSES to live in areas where it is harder to offer communication services.
If you choose to live on a farm where the next farm is three miles away then sorry - but I don't think our tax dollars should be wasted to fund your broadband service.
And it gets worse- not only is the premise behind the USF already questionable - various companies have found creative ways to enhance their slice of the pie without actually providing any extra services or incurring any extra costs to do so. In essence a lot of companies look at the USF as just another form of revenue/profit. There is pretty much zero supervision of where funds go, and it's more than likely that a huge portion of the funds collected are not used for the purpose they were intended for. |
