Tax funded, corporate owned - the best of both worlds :/
Reminds me of an interesting century-old maneuver ... government-created, corporate owned ... when the US created RCA after WW1 by using a 'national security' argument to force British-owned 'American Marconi' to sell to US citizens.
Which, to me, explains a lot about how RCA later treated later radio and TV pioneers.
Another disaster in the making. Just look at FUSF. It started at 6% and only applied to long distance calls. Now it's 18.3% and applies to all sorts of data services. The appetite for free money knows no bounds.
joe
I feel that the most damning part of this suggested regulation is that it directly feeds into funds that already exist with no real evidence that the half a billion leaves us underfunded. There is also the idea that states/muni governments would make themselves less attractive for business to give that tax money to a subsidy fund... Instead of their local government monetary funds.
So the fcc opposes regulation, unless it’s taxes being paid to the carriers?
As far as I can tell, it wasn't Ajit Pai that suggested this tax - it was an advisory committee within the FCC.
they already pay for the service they use and are taxed on tha usage. This current FCC continues to prove they are terrible at regulation or logical conclusions.