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If it looks like duck, sounds like a duck, and smells like a duck
You know the saying.

It isn't a direct TAX. But consider it like this. They want the make money by forcing you to obtain access to TV via a new means, digital. That frees them up to sell off the analog spectrum to make billions. To keep what you already have you pay $50 per TV set and gain nothing extra. All that so the government can make money. Sounds like a tax to me.

Only differnce is this one tax you can choose not to pay and just pawn off you current Television sets.
Posted by: voska   Posted on: 10/18/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Hay John don?t bother running for president if you push this.  Palmyra | 10/18/05
This is embarrassing  Palmyra | 10/18/05
Oh, I don't know...  rapson | 10/18/05
Hay? Tax and spend, lol  Oknarf | 10/18/05
Tax cuts also...  Zinoron | 10/18/05
Oh, but you will pay...  el1jones | 10/18/05
Econ 101  Oknarf | 10/18/05
I was awake in that class...  Zinoron | 10/18/05
Too true...  Oknarf | 10/18/05
If you were awake in class ...  ShadeTree | 10/18/05
I'll comment  tic swayback | 10/18/05
Well put ...  Oknarf | 10/18/05
Confuse the issuse?!?  el1jones | 10/18/05
And it shows...  Oknarf | 10/18/05
Good point  tic swayback | 10/18/05
What is pork spending?  voska | 10/18/05
Ah the joys of Wikipedia  tic swayback | 10/18/05
Do you even know the difference between a ...  ShadeTree | 10/18/05
A tax in hidden form  tic swayback | 10/18/05
If it looks like duck, sounds like a duck, and smells like a duck  voska | 10/18/05
oh, for crying out loud . . .  CobraA1 | 10/18/05
Splitters don't work on Digital  voska | 10/19/05
In other words  Otto_Delete | 10/18/05
Is this the real problem?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/18/05
For once!  jacarter3 | 10/18/05
Good points... do they really need...  el1jones | 10/18/05
It's a combination of things  tic swayback | 10/18/05
Cable or Satellite Subsidies?  Rodney Davis | 10/18/05
"Politico.........."  bony tryan | 10/19/05

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