gpancner
join:2001-09-27
Nine Mile Falls, WA
| reply to Skippy25
Re: If you can't drop your own rates....
cable has an exclusive right to territory as mcdonald's has exclusive rights to hamburgers. exclusive cable tv franchises are illegal (see Cable TV Act of 1984). The fees are just another tax, and should be assessed upon all video providers equally.. |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| reply to gpancner
You have no clue what it is you are talking about.
Most cable taxes are there as franchise fees and other "payoffs" for them to have exclusive rights to that territory. How the muni uses that tax is up to them, but this attempt is simply cable trying to raise the rates of it's competitors without providing them more profit so they dont have to lower theirs.
If your muni wants to collect taxes to cover the cost of services being offered they need to find another way of doing it or drop the service. If not we can expand your flawed reasoning to having an internet tax on all purchases and even internet connections. |
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