INDEX
- ObamaCare: By the Numbers
Thursday, March 18, 2010
- Interior Department Hides Data, Pushes Back Offshore Drilling Plan
- It May be Sunshine Week, But There Are Dark Clouds over the Slaughter House (CFA Site »)
- Bill McCollum Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in Florida Governor's Race
- Sen. Lincoln (D-Ark.) New Ad: I'm not working for the unions
- Making Laws Should Be Transparent
- CFA in Washington Times: Read the Bill! (CFA Site »)
- How the FCC Plans to Tax the Internet (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Study: Health Care Legislation Will Cost up to 700,000 Jobs by 2019
- Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Government Health Bill to be Voted on by House
- Testimony Before U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Labor
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
- The Second Annual Pat Quinn Income Tax Increase Proposal
- How the FCC Plans to Tax the Internet
- Oh, the Irony! It's Sunshine Week, So Let's Push Healthcare Bill Through Without Even Voting On It!? (CFA Site »)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
- Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Scott Walker Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- Why Do We Get Health Insurance from Our Employers Anyway? (ASA Site »)
- The Enormous Price Tag of Government Run Healthcare (ASA Site »)
- Call for Sunshine Week: "Just Give Us The Earmark Data" (CFA Site »)
- PA-12 Special Election Update: Tim Burns Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- How Government Accounting Works
- ATRF Analysis: The Importance of International Tax Competition
- How Tax Preparation "Simplification" Will Lead to Tax Hikes
- GAO: Implementation of Coburn-Obama Still Lacking in Some Areas (CFA Site »)
Monday, March 15, 2010
- Latest Developments In The Fight To Stop A Govt Internet Takeover
- China Buys Our Debt, We Give Them Renewable Energy Stimulus Jobs...Seems About Right
- ATR Urges Governor McDonnell to Sign Bill to Abolish State Run Tax Filing
- Saving the Sea Turtles...But at What Cost? (PRA Site »)
- Craig Miller Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in FL-24
- The Economics of #StimulusFail
- Missouri Unions and Andy Stern on the Same Page: Raise Taxes (AWF Site »)
- Obamacare, Free Trade, & Our Economic Prosperity
Friday, March 12, 2010
- Rusty Bowers Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for AZ-01 Race
- Ask Your Virginia Legislator to Vote "NO" on Any Budget Containing Higher Taxes
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ATR Supports H.R. 4781, the
"Keeping American Businesses
Competitive Act of 2010" - Ronald Reagan Legacy Project Urges Naming of California High School After Reagan
- Democrats Attempt to Subvert Congress in Hopes of Carbon Regulation
- Economic Issues Dominate at the Bloggers Briefing
- Pushback Against EPA’s Attempts to Regulate Carbon Emissions Grows
- Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Running on a Platform of Tax Hikes
Thursday, March 11, 2010
- Michigan Jobs Ain't What They Used To Be...Unless You Work For The Government
- ATR and CFA Support Earmark Moratorium
- Voter Fraud in the Name of Tax Hikes
- Ballooning Deficits in Greece Foreshadowing Future for the U.S.? (ASA Site »)
- Green Jobs FAIL
- The Evergreen Tax and Fee Spree
- ATR Staffer Testifies Before U.S. House Energy & Commerce Select Committee
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
- The endemic rot in government run health care
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla: Why Andy Stern Stands Out
- The Left Agree: Obamacare Ushers In Their Radical Ideological Agenda
- We Ought Focus On Cutting Taxes & Spending, Not Deficits
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla (AWF Site »)
-
Does the Obamacare Investment Surtax
Apply to Capital Gains? - ATR Urges Opposition to Sen. Isakson Pension Bailout
- Taxpayers to Legislators: Clean Virginia Budget of Taxes
- ATR Supports the Georgia JOBS Act
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- ATR Urges Utah Governor Herbert to Veto Tax Increase
- More on the VAT
- Public Sector Jobs
- How 550,000 jobs were destroyed by the minimum wage hike
- How Obamacare Will Hurt Poor Women & Children Most
- Federal Workers Make $11,000 More Than Private Sector Workers, and There’s More of Them (AWF Site »)
Monday, March 8, 2010
- Legislation Introduced to Put Ronald Reagan on the $50 Bill
- Pledge Signer Wins Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Primary
- "Net Neutrality" To Kill Jobs
- NY Supreme Court Votes to Evict Residents and Close Businesses (PRA Site »)
- California US Senate Candidates Square Off in First Debate
Friday, March 5, 2010
- ATR and CFA Support the Spending Limit Amendment
Thursday, March 4, 2010
How Google Profits From Net Neutrality
From Tim Andrews on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:20 PM
Timothy Carney, writing in today’s Washington Examiner, examines the reasons why Google, who donated over $800,000 to President Obama’s campaign, is lobbying so heavily for net neutrality.
He begins with a an explanation of how the internet operates.
“Some companies make, gather or present digital stuff you want, including content (such as YouTube's videos), communication (such as the new Google Voice service) or applications (such as eBay's auction software). Other companies deliver these digital "goods" over wires or through the air to your computer or iPhone -- such as AT&T, Verizon or Comcast. In brief, there are content providers and there are networks.”
However, as more and more people are taking advantage of data intensive services, for instance watching live high-definition video online, there simply isn’t the infrastructure there to supply the demand.
Carney presents two solutions: “One solution: Just build massive amounts of new bandwidth [ed: and charge consumers!]. A better solution: Networks could build special "express lanes" for content that requires lots of bandwidth”. This next-generation smart technology would ensure faster internet, at lower costs. It is this express lane that net-neutrality would outlaw. As such, Google & others, who don’t want to pay anything to use the wires, are calling on the government to legislate to ensure their free-rider status: “It's comparable to a manufacturer lobbying for price controls on shipping companies”
Net neutrality will lead to higher costs, slower internet, and a worse online experience for households. It’s as simple as that .
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Making Laws Should Be Transparent - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:30 PM
Study: Health Care Legislation Will Cost up to 700,000 Jobs by 2019 - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:21 AM
Comments
Do you really think it's in Google's interest to have the internet be slower and have higher costs? Google's entire business strategy is to do whatever it can to get more people online easier, because when they go online they go to Google, and Google can show them ads (Andriod, Chrome, ChromeOS, Docs - all of them exist entirely to get people on the internet). If the conclusion that net neutrality laws lead to slower internet and higher costs is as simple and obvious as you make it seem, Google would come up with the same conclusion and would not be lobbying for those laws. Clearly you are missing something.
>> Matt Friday, October 30, 2009 3:34 PM
The Net Neutrality advocates want to transform the internet into a public utility, managed by the governement. They want to create an environment where the government is forced to step in, build out networks, and nationalize the background. It's all right here: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/246.php This is an interview with the founder of the Free Press, whose press secretary is now the FCC's press secretary. But the truth is, even Google is starting to worry that things are going to far. See this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204357.html
>> Max Power Friday, October 30, 2009 4:44 PM
I DON'T TRUST THEM THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME OUT PUBLICLY AND DENOUNCE THIS IF THEY DON'T THEY ARE FOR IT AND STAND TO PROFIT FROM IT.FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.
>> Jean Monday, November 2, 2009 12:59 PM