New Internet Taxes to Pay for Freebies: A Chicken In Every Pot and Broadband In Every Home

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• I thought I said this yesterday in a thread, that all of us would be paying for the freeloaders, welfare mopes and illegal aliens to have internet to look for kiddie porn...

• I thought that only the legislature had the power to levy taxes and that those bills involving taxes had to start in the HOR.

  Welcome to a fundamentally changed America where we are a dictatorship.

  • Just what I was thinking.

• Not surprised in the least, another voter buying scheme, paid for by the rapidly dwindling number of producers left in this country.
  As a side benefit, all access will be restricted to politically correct websites of the FCC's choosing I sure.

• In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

  "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
  beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
  years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

  From bondage to spiritual faith;
  From spiritual faith to great courage;
  From courage to liberty;
  From liberty to abundance;
  From abundance to complacency;
  From complacency to apathy;
  From apathy to dependence;
  From dependence back into bondage."
  The Obituary follows:
  Born 1776, Died 2016

• Isn't this^^^ the same as this?
  https://www.ihatethemedia.com/the-fcc-rolls-out-a-plan-to-give-free-broadband-internet-to-obamaphone-users

  • Basically. You can't remind people enough about this shit. (AKA: Lame excuse of the day for forgetting)

    • Good cover. I have to remember that one.

• How is it nobody predicted this? Oh wait, we did.