@stpierreluke: What deregulation of Wall Street? That's complete fiction.

@Dogen: It's not a false dichotomy. If I, and 53% of the rest of the population, do not want our money spent on other people's broadband, but our money is taken anyway, then it is done so by force. You either support that taking by force or you do not. How can it be any other way?

@showbiz2: No one said fuck the farmers and rural people. No one said they don't deserve shit. No one aside from you, that is.

@Denver: An appropriate response for someone too lazy to support his own causes, expecting others to carry that burden.

@JohnnyricoMC: Yes, I'd be okay with that, because the market would provide. If there is demand for a service, then there will be a supply.

@showbiz2: At least you're consistent; you're for stealing your neighbors produce and having the government steal workers money through taxes. Nice.

@Dogen: Well then Dogen, why don't you tell me what you mean, rather than leaving me to guess.

@Brian Alexander: Brian, there's a lot of stuff I'd love to have, but can't afford. Guess what? I don't have those things.

Simple lesson for those that think the government should pay for this, or anything:

@Dogen: So then you don't think tax payers should pay for broadband to rural areas? Oh good, we're in agreement then.

@Salamanderjuice: Okay, sorry, porn, cat videos, and paying your phone bill online are all basic human rights.

@Brian Alexander: Again, I'm having trouble following your sarcasm.

@showbiz2: Corn and soybeans are economically the best to grow because they are subsidized. We eat a lot of corn in this country (more than we should) because it seems cheap to do so. We pay the subsidies whether we eat the corn to do so, and the price at the grocery store is low. But corn and other grains really…

@James Buchan: James, why don't you take your own money to pay for other people's broadband and healthcare? If you're not willing to do so, and instead saying that people must have money that they earned taken from them by force to pay for those who have not earned it, it is you that I call selfish.

@♫ Realityism ♪♫: Downloading porn and cat videos is a human right!

@showbiz2: I think you misunderstood. I wasn't calling the farmers ignorant. I was calling you economically ignorant, since you aren't aware that these taxes you propose would reduce sales of corn, blow jobs, weddings, and oranges, hurting those you ostensibly want to help.

@elvisml2: Isn't it grand how well that turned out? I wonder, what in the history of government programs gives people the idea that government will ever perform effectively?

@Jimmy1: For the most part, yes, I am.

@Brian Alexander: I'm not following your sarcasm here, but you wanna know how we shiny city dwellers get our food? We pay for it. Most of us with our own money. That money goes to the farmers. Those farmers could use that money to pay for broadband access if they decide that's the best use of their money. If not,…

@casperiv: No, it's because we're all greedy dicks, didn't you know? If you don't vote to take someone else's money, you're greedy, see? Meanwhile, the "generous" people won't bother to donate a dime to whatever their cause du jour is, they'll just bitch about people who, god forbid, want to spend, save, donate, or…