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I think expenditures such as these, aimed directly at enabling community members to be more equal in terms of their ability to participate in the modern world and give themself a hand up are fantastic.

Bring more of these types of tax expenditures IMO.

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Hear hear. We need a new rural electrification act that pushes fiber to every nook and cranny of the country.

Though unlike electricity, it's going to be increasingly practical to deliver decent internet speeds via cellular and satellite. So I'm not sure that pushing wired connections to every individual house is the best approach at this point.

Not with arbitrary limits on monthly data transfer amounts.

There is no better incentive than having to compete against subsidized fiber.

Of course, a lot of that subsidy will come from more urban areas. Which I'm mostly fine with but I imagine a lot of people here are probably not.

Living in society is not free of cost.

Certainly. I'm just remarking that one sees a lot of negativity here, presumably from city dwellers, with respect to infrastructure subsidies for more spread out areas.

That’s not how the REA works. It provides loans to rural electric cooperatives at reasonable interest rates.

Subsidized wireless is better.

Lot more bandwidth with fiber.

Way better to spend tax money on this than more bombs

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