Internet Taxes to go up

[dmcowen674]

Netizens, prepare to pay more

 

[Insane3D]

Oh great. I'm already paying almost $60/mo for cable broadband, and I don't have access to DSL. So basically they are going to make it even less affordable and attractive to people if they keep raising the rates. If my service goes up much more, I will likely have to just go back to 56K.

Why are we funding landlines with this "Universal Fund" thing anyways? Aren't people starting to move away from landlines nowadays?

 

[JellyBaby]

We could throw our cable modems into Boston harbor.

Blame politicians from rural states--like Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, who heads the appropriations committee, along with Republican Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana, who heads the communications subcommittee. Stevens, Burns and other rural-state politicians vie to find new excuses to increase Universal Service Fund-related taxes.

Republicans eh? Small government, low taxation republicans seem to be a dying (dead?) breed.

 

[JellyBaby]

Why are we funding landlines with this "Universal Fund" thing anyways?

There is no longer any need, really. But government always seeks to grow, to tax, beyond its mandate...especially when it screws up (the piece mentions this Fund is replete with "irregularities").

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Bout damn time you cable boys flash some cash

Everytime I look at my telephone/DSL bill I shake my head and get really pissed. $5 for this tax, $5 for that tax, $7.50 for another :|
Now I pay it online without even looking at the detailed bill Less stress that way

BTW - the cable boy stuff was a joke This Uni tax is BS.

CkG

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Here are some alternate lyrics for an old Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood favorite, everyone sing along.

These are the people in your government
in your government
in your gov-ern-ment
these are the people in your government
the people that screw you each day.

 

[ProviaFan]

I guess I'll be stuck on dialup for a while longer, maybe indefinitely. This sucks. :|

 

[dmcowen674]

Florida Communications Tax to reach 16%.

Floridians are currently paying as high as 9.6% in some areas of the State already for certain . The new rules would apply to everything and anything Communications related.

The way things are going we will be paying 59 cents a second for Internet Bandwidth before too long.


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Florida Tax Agenda

Proposed rules worry Florida providers

Written by Karl Bode

The state of Florida is apparently in the process of considering new state communications tax guidelines that have some providers a little nervous. A concerned netizen writes us and included several pdf files (attached below) that explore the state's efforts to implement a State Communicated Services Tax. The documents do not appear on the State of Florida Department of Revenue web site, but outline the attempts being made in the state to create several new tax guidelines.

One of the documents outlines the pro...

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[Martin]

so how much do you guys pay for broadband? My current line is 35 CAD (26US) a month for 1mbps down.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

As much as I'd like to get riled up about this, the fact is that we've been paying this for a long time on our phone bills. Nobody seems to bitch and moan about that, but when other "communication land lines" finally get taxed like phones there is an uproar. It is obvious to me that the whole thing should be done away with and will support any effort to do so but I question the timing and reasoning behind the opposition of one and not the other.

<- has DSL and pays the tax.
CkG

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
so how much do you guys pay for broadband? My current line is 35 CAD (26US) a month for 1mbps down.

$40 for a 2meg cable. Thinking of switching to slower cheaper dsl however.

 

[LunarRay]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
so how much do you guys pay for broadband? My current line is 35 CAD (26US) a month for 1mbps down.

$40 for a 2meg cable. Thinking of switching to slower cheaper dsl however.

I have Cox and pay 29$ and the test showed 3800/375 what does this mean?

 

[AEB]

i live in alaska where stevens is from and hes always been big on raising revenues, too much so. it probably wont affect up here since there is only 1 cable company, they do tv modem and telephones. and a seperate company does DSL. but i only care about my line at college if they slow that down ill be sad