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- From: tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem tax back
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.024908.16441@ssc.wa.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 02:49:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.211954.19466@ssc.wa.com> <1992Aug14.070225.4098@fasttech.uucp>
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- In article <1992Aug14.070225.4098@fasttech.uucp> zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
- >In <1992Aug12.211954.19466@ssc.wa.com> tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook) writes:
- >
- >>Oh, great! Then the rural users pay thousands of dollars per
- >>month for the "true cost" of providing service into low desity
- >>areas, and the telcos just fight over providing the lowest cost
- >>service to big customers in the city. Some telephone service!
- >
- >The US government already squanders many, many billions of dollars a year in
- >farm subsidies. I see no reason why I should subsidize farmers in yet another
- >manner. Nor do I see any reason why I should subsidize rich yuppie DINKs who
- >think they are getting closer to nature, burn many gallons of fuel every day
- >commuting to work, and still feel they are entitled to "universal" service.
- >
- >It's very easy to argue for "entitlements", like cheap phone service miles
- >from the nearest town. People are free to make that kind of lifestyle choice,
- >but they shouldn't try to convince me it's somehow in my best interest to
- >help them pay for it.
- >
-
- Then go argue with your PUC and convince them that universal service
- is not in the public interest! But remember that the original
- poster was using his opposition to universal service and any
- cross subisidies from business to residential service as a justification
- for spreading false rumors about a non-existent "modem tax."
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