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people here don't understand how large USA is -- connecting every corner with copper/fiber, with all the intermediary networking devices means tax money...
Yes, it does mean tax money. Stop corporate welfare and bump the corporate tax rate back to a reasonable value.
Yes, but we've already done it, twice, and the benefits were quite significant.
We paid $900 million in taxes to subsidize rural access to Starlink in one year lol
We also paid $42 billion in taxes for ISPs to roll out broadband access in a 2021 bill, and it hasn't connected a single person to the internet
Before that, we paid $400 billion to ISPs to do the same thing with the same results