On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:03:53PM -0700, Steve wrote: > >On Jan 2, 2008 11:51 AM, Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is there a budget for this at all? Television is not a necessity. > > It angers me that my tax dollars are being used to buy home theater > > components for the masses. A coupon wasn't available a few years ago > > when I purchased my HD tuner. > > > > This is NOT a home theatre equipment subsidy, all these boxes do is > down convert ATSC to NTSC. > There are only a small handful of different models of boxes being > subsidized here and they are really nothing more than tuners.
It's still a subsidy. I agree with Wade; subsidies for TV are wrong. > > Regardless of all that though, the fact remains that there are > millions of elderly and/or home bound people who may be left without > TV service for such vital things as Emergency Broadcasts and even > mundane niceties like the evening news. > > Personally I wouldn't want my mother who is quite elderly and not > really very technical at all, to lose her TV service just because she > can't afford a new set. This is for people like that, not for people > like you and me, to whom the purchase of a new TV doesn't require a > choice between buying food or medicine or paying rent. Then feel free to buy her one. I think that would be a much kinder and more caring act than forcing some third party at the point of an IRS agent to buy her one. We -- including the folks for whom buying a new TV would be very difficult -- pay too dang much in taxes already without this nonsense. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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