Gas taxes have never even approached 5-fold let alone 100-fold
Gas tax increasing from one cent to 18.4 cents (24.4 cents on diesel) is more than 5 fold. Now the nationwide average including state tax is over 50 cents.
Not sure I follow how wireless may get sued for slowing other broadband networks because wireless microwave broadband forms it’s own backbone although it can interface with other broadband exchanges, and it serves the last mile. It’s extremely fast and scalable. Fiber is not scalable, it has limits.
I canceled my Netflix account because I rarely watch movies anymore and because Susan Rice joined their Board. When asked why I was canceling, I wrote in the ‘Other’ field, “Susan Rice”.
If Susan Rice is for NN, then I’m agin it.
The climb in gas tax adjusted for inflation is not over 5-fold. Consumers are pretty good at holding government tax creep at bay.
My contention is that corporations can take over the internet development, eat each other and suffer loss of competition. The evolution to a Ma Bell internet is to be avoided. Without anti-trust and government regulation, the internet evolution can lead towards monopoly. For me, I’d like to see some sort of hybrid of public-private development. Have to think through the dynamics as a public alternative can keep private innovators at the top of their game. If on the other hand, private corps think they’ve got it all sewn up, that’s when the Ma Bell culture sets in. Corporate monopolies can be just as bad as government bureaucracies. Or, corporate collusion can take hold where they each of the big players divide up the spoils. With the breakup of Ma Bell, ATT and the RBOCS along with MCI, Sprint, and others slammed consumers constantly by luring them in with teaser rates followed by slamming in extortionary rates.
So sorry, but I am not all that trusting of corporate players. But I trust less those democrats pushing NN as some sort of campaign issue. That stinks and I don’t know how to counter it.