Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr...
by Talanes on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:13PM
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Now you're just getting hung up on semantics, when the posters actual intended meaning was clear to several others here.
If you want to go down that road, however, grant dollars are already allocated and could thus be considered already spent.
Do you really want to be having an argument about what spend means?
He literally said 'no tax pennies were spent'.
They obviously were, what he wrote is factually incorrect, taxes are taxes, just because they didn't have to rise council tax is totally irrelevant.
He also claimed "There is absolutely nothing about this service that is a hand out from the government".
That is also completely WRONG if as he claimed they received state and federal grants. A lie. It is subsidised.
i.e. You're completely wrong, the original poster woefully misunderstands taxes and grants if he's claiming no handouts and and taxes, please stop now.
I think broadband should be a public utility, this has got nothing to do with my politics, it's simply pointing out the original comment is factually incorrect in its claims.
His town's broadband was subsidised, it was built using tax payer pennies and it did require a handout.