- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program::Thune, Cruz complain that $30 discounts go to people who “already had broadband.”
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If there’s one thing Republicans can’t stand, it’s helping the poor.
It’s two fold for them, I’d bet money that they’re also trying to disconnect the youth in some attempt to grow their dwindling youth base. Their dumb book bans don’t work so well when kids can just hop on the Internet and get it anyways (and more)
Can’t have kids learning all that “empathy” and “caring” indoctrination! /s
I can very easily see republican communities banding together against the internet in the same way Amish ones do.
Internet should be treated as a utility, not a for-profit business who we need to give more government kickbacks to. Look how well that turned out in the past.
Exactly. It’s a service. Service costs money. Pay for it with taxes
Republicans literally exist to only make things worse.
So don’t be like that, they also exist to get paid by their corporqte overlords and remove rights.
Anyone else think republican politicians would be really bad at chess?
They’d play chess like a pigeon would. Flipping over pieces and shitting all over the board, while having no clue what they are doing, nor caring about what they are doing.
Well, shitting on things without consequence is definitely their definition of freedom.
So exactly how they govern.
Republicans like helping Poor People like Jesus did!
$30 would pay for my fibre entirely
Should be higher. $60/mo. tax credit for broadband plus $2,000 every 3 years for tech gear.
That’s more then I spend for my household on “tech gear” every 3 years, including cellular devices. I am far from any line that would qualify me for a program… seems excessive.
I agree with the bump to $60, $30 is a good subsidy like a decade + ago.
Is the money supposed to completely pay for it or is it a subsidy? If it’s a subsidy then $30 seems fine. High speed Internet at around $50 seems pretty common.
Idk. Where I live the cheapest option is like $65. I think one company offers 10mb for less, but for obvious reasons I haven’t switched to that.
I thought there was a companion requirement that providers must offer a plan that is fully covered.
I gave up on cable internet about 2 years ago.
I just use my phone and haven’t looked back. Saves me a ton of money, too.
Oh wow, I have 5G on my phone and it served its purpose when the cables were being repaired (which took a few months), but I’m not pulling 1000/1000 mbit with latencies of under 6 ms from the air, and it only costs like 35 eur / month
I can get 500mbps for $50 or 1gbps for $65.
My cell phone bill is only $25, and I don’t need to download large files often or under time-constraints.
Having an extra $600 in my bank account every year is pretty noticeable, though.
