In 1913 the the Federal Income Tax was sold to the public as a tax on the very rich only at 7% of their incomes and only 1% to all others who after an exemption would owe no taxes and no filing was required for those that owed no taxes. More than 98% of the public never saw anything related to income taxes until years later when it hit them because it had grown and ‘snuck up on everyone’.
100 years later we see the Federal Income Tax as a weapon used politically.
The point of this history is that the Federal Government always comes into controversial issues using benign language that purports to affect no one negatively and is otherwise only positive in its effects. In this case a simple promise is made that internet rates will be regulated so that no one will be charged more than policy rates dictate.
If you like your internet rate, you can keep your internet rate.
Since the top 20% of income pay 94% of US income taxes, it effectively is a rich mans tax.
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/top-20-percent-households-pay-94-percent-income-taxes
It's amazing how many people even on this forum trust government when government says that they want to fix something that isn't broken.
Why do they trust government and not the free market?
Capitalism or the free market has created most of the technology like smart phones and capitalism is what is driving the economy. government is just a drag on capitalism. I mean new products are coming out every day and technology in electronics is improving every day and that is being driven by private companies that are innovating like Google, tmobile, IBM ,INtel, APple, Samsung, ZTE, HTC,Amazon,Sharp,Toyota,Walmart, Zeiki etc. that technology advancement is not being driven by the FCC nor DMV nor IRS but by private companies(capitalism) innovating and producing and improving tech and efficiency and quality.