11-12-2015, 02:51 PM
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Location: California
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Originally Posted by galleryseek
Wrong, see your previous statement:
A market is not free if there's state intervention. The program demands a percentage of their revenue. Whether or not they'll pass the cost onto consumers is irrelevant; it's the fact that the mafia-like entity know as the state is demanding a percentage of their revenue.
The consumers opting to do business with a given company in the case of the USF doesn't mean anything, because all other cell phone companies are required to have the USF.
It's like when statists tell me to leave the country if I don't like government; uhm, all other countries have governments.
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I never said private companies operate on an absolute free market system in this country without any government regulations whatsoever. I just said that the relationship between the consumer and the phone company is a free market relationship...because the phone company is free to decide whether or not to charge the extra fee...and the consumer is free to decide if they want to do business with that company. |
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