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   dorpus, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 12:33am

   
   

   The alternative

   Would it be better for taxpayer money to fund the infrastructure that supports VoIP in the first place, so that private businesses get a free ride?
   

    

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   Mike (profile), Oct 1st, 2003 @ 12:42am

   
   

   Re: The alternative

   I'm sorry, let me get this straight, you're claiming that current VoIP traffic is paid for by taxpayer money?

    

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   dorpus, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 12:46am

   
   

   Re: The alternative

   In most countries of the world, yes. It also still happens in the US through indirect means.
   

    

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   Mike (profile), Oct 1st, 2003 @ 12:50am

   
   

   Re: The alternative

   Funny, last I checked, California was in the US.
   
   If you're going to post stupid trolls, you could at least try to make them interesting.

    

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   dorpus, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 12:52am

   
   

   Re: The alternative

   Yes, and phone subsidies are alive and strong in the USA, if you dig deeper. Try checking obscure lobbying groups in Washington DC.
   

    

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   AMetamorphosis, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 7:55am

   
   

   Re: The alternative

   Mike,
   
   I'm fast losing in respect I had for you ...
   Quit " fanning the flames " just because you don't see eye to eye with Dorpus ...
   
   Who is the intelligent one and who is child ?
   
   This is turning into slash/twat
   

    

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   Chronic, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 9:45am

   
   

   Re: The alternative

   Yeah Mike, stop being an agressive toolbox and try rational argument for a change! Oh, wait, I forgot, since this article doesn't provide you with a platform to air your pro-MP3/filesharing/Kazaa/music stealing rants, you have to resort to name calling and pointless slander!

    

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   Wayne, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 10:41am

   
   

   Consider this

   Vonage allows calls to folks with regular phones, which means they need point-of-presence equipment in IXC's , or at least pay for their use. So yes - they use the existing telecom infrastructure in some form in addition to vonage to vonage calls strictly over net. So they must be considered a phone company.

    

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   anon, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 12:45pm

   
   

   Re: Consider this

   So its the Old Tax EVERY THING even if some of it does no go over the phone lines.
   I see, your one of the morons who believes the music industry should get paid every time you buy a blank CD even if you are using if for data storage.
   Isn't this one of the reasons we succeed from England. You do remember the Boston tea party dont you?
   

    

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    Wayne, Oct 1st, 2003 @ 5:12pm

    
    

    Re: Consider this

    Good to see you had something of value to add to the discussion.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 20th, 2006 @ 12:24pm

    
    

    Re: Consider

    Agreed (with Anon@12:45pm)
    
    Why don't we just allow the Gommnit to tax everything. Here's one: lets tax all sales. Then if I decide to sell my care that I already paid sales tax on and I make more than $10,000 I have to give the g'mint 8.5% of that. And if the guy I sell my car to sells it again, he has to pay the g'mint again, and so on. Oh! In California we already do that. I guess we all just really work the for Government.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 20th, 2006 @ 7:21pm

    
    

    resurrection

    look at the article/comment dates. pulled from death...

     

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    pixelpusher220 (profile), Sep 6th, 2009 @ 11:51am

    
    

    Just a nice factoid

    Mike seems to believe Vonage/VOIP shouldn't be regulated like the phone companies....until it affects him:
    
    
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090904/1449236112.shtm
    
    
    oops.

     

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