White House says internet providers to discount fee for poor

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10. Rural Poor (Repub) Subsidy (Socialism)

My brother works for the evil empire (a big telecommunication corp). They know how may eyeballs there are on every road their cable passes. I'll bet dollars to donuts it costs way more to connect rural populations than urban. On top of this, most rural areas have declining population so over time there will be far fewer rural folks over the same cable network.

Why do I bring this up? Because rural areas trend Republican. Second, the subsidy to maintain the rural network will go up over time. Fewer people on the network means there will be less people paying to maintain it and someone else (suburban and urban subscribers) will be footing more of the bill to maintain the network in rural areas where there are less subscribers.

Yea, this is mean. But if the Repubs are going to continue to call Dems socialists and communists then we'd better call them out whenever they've pried money from other folks to subsidize their constituents living choices.