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Mount Airy, MD | Schools Red Herring How many years have we been paying for connecting schools to broadband? Isn't this done yet? And why is it a federal problem? Why shouldn't state/local school taxes pay for this stuff since it is their problem?
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| The problem with the FCC, FDA etc is that the previous administration appointed their cronies to the key positions. These guys are out to make sure that the government and anything it does fails. No different to Alan Greenspan, who made decisions based on his no government or regulation Ayn Rand creed. The inevitable end result spoke for itself.
Cities and localities have no money. Remember, unlike the rest of the developed world, our tax model is centered around Personal Property and state income taxes and the archaic county based system. Put simply, a county or city is not able to realize economies of scale, as they are overseas, where everything is on a state level.
Why do you think our states are in the red? Teachers, Police, Fire? Dead Wrong. It's because the tax revenue from personal property taxes and state income taxes tanked the second the economy went into recession.
However, to this day, not one single Republican has accepted this fact. Instead, the continue to blame and scapegoat the aforementioned. |
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| said by Telco:The problem with the FCC, FDA etc is that the previous administration appointed their cronies to the key positions.
/sarcasm on Of course this didn't happen with the current administration. /sarcasm off |
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Portage, IN | reply to Telco
This is the problem with partisans. We will never progress as a nation as long as everyone, rather than coming up with any real solutions, just continues to scapegoat the "other team" for doing exactly what "their team" is doing.
The previous administration appointed their "cronies" (industry insiders mostly) to key regulatory positions. Obama appointed his college buddy to run the FCC. Better or worse? But it's OK to be a parasite on the country, as long as the last guy did it too, right?
I am not beholden to any political party, and I have no problem with sound and reasonable regulations when imposed on industry to protect the citizens or consumers from monopolistic or dangerous behaviors and fraud. But when all the regulations seem to have done in the last few decades is protect the multinationals while turning the screws on the consumers and the little guy. In that case, I'm all for Ayn Rand. |
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to Telco
said by Telco:However, to this day, not one single Republican has accepted this fact. Instead, the continue to blame and scapegoat the aforementioned. Blah blah blah.
Why didn't your man 0bama get this done from 2009 to 2011 then.
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said by pnh102:Why didn't your man 0bama get this done from 2009 to 2011 then.
Of course "bla bla bla" as what else does your ilk have... It's always abstract scapegoats like the government or teachers that are apparently to blame for everything.
What he did was stop the depression we were heading into. Once again, you guys act as if you handed him the same economy Bush was handed from Clinton, like federal revenue exceeding expenses (aka a budget surplus).
Then you have the 275 filibusters by the Republicans and TEAnutters; the highest on record in our nation's history. |
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