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Until a line breaks and you discover it costs money to have someone fix it. Or a router gets attacked be someone evil and now you don't have internet. Or ... There are a lot of costs to running internet.
I don't know how the costs compare to what AT&T is charging. I doubt you do either.
You think at&t is protecting you from hackers? ISPs are notorious for using crap routers and wifi devices which they charge an arm and leg for. ISPs literally had default passwords that can be guessed (many of them still do), used outdated protocols that were prone to brute force attacks or simply fail to compete with even the most basic DD-WRT, Open-WRT or other custom firmaware.
You could just add an extra tax to cover it and it would be cheaper than your Internet bill since it would be spread out amongst everyone.
Liberals: Tax it!
Also Liberals: What about the poor people!
I'm poor af but I'm fine with a $0.02 tax to maintain an infrastructure so uh... I think you got your teams mixed up there
Public utilities are cheaper than private ones. And it's not like there aren't city programs for low income. Cali is far from being the most progressive (in comparison to the rest of the world) and they have plenty of assistance programs for all possible utilities.
Lemmy tends to think everything is free, has no clue about real-world costs.
Idiots tend to think that lemmy tends to think everything is free, has no clue about real-world costs. Also they have bad breath.