How exactly is Bill Maher supported by the taxpayers? Does he use the PUBLIC AIRWAVES? No...he does not. He's on HBO. Where only people who WANT to watch him, can.
Does not Rush use MY PUBLIC AIRWAVES?
Yes...yes he does and as such is subject to the federal licensing program of the FCC.
Who pays for for the hidden charges in the Cable Bills? Ever wonder why quality of service goes down while cost rises? Wait, you can't check, the Government Surcharges are hidden. Maher should not even be compared to Rush, he has not earned it. He is a hack.
Rush has paid his dues, worked his way up to the top, in every way. Advertising pays for all of those licensing fee's, or haven't you noticed? Or maybe you are confusing Commercial Radio with NPR?
What FCC Rules has Rush broken???
hidden charges? you must be one of those retards who thinks your cheerios are full of secret messages only for you.
Or, maybe, I am right.
Although 96.2 percent of Americans have the ability to access phone service, funding to companies that support the USF high-cost component has grown from $2.6 billion in 2001 to a projected $4.5 billion in 2011. This subsidy exists despite the fact that wireless service could more efficiently provide service. According to FCC Chairman Genachowski’s remarks on October 6, 2011, the USF is wasteful and inefficient, paying some companies almost $2,000 a month for a single home phone line.
The FCC also included in its order and report reforms to the ICC program, which are the charges one carrier pays to another when originating, transporting, or terminating a call or other telecommunications traffic. Established before the era of long distance competition in the marketplace, the ICC is filled with inefficiencies and opportunities for waste. The rates are billed at a charge per minute, and are overseen at the interstate level by the FCC and the intrastate level by the states. Reciprocal compensation is applied to calls that begin and end within the same local calling area. Increased strains on the ICC program have developed as consumers increasingly utilize options such as voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) technology, wireless communications and bundled services.
Rules have been included in the ICC provisions of the CAF plan to address issues with artificially inflated traffic volumes and missing identifiers for intercarrier billing information, both of which have created payment problems within the program. According to the CAF executive summary, the FCC plans to adopt into the ICC program a national “bill-and-keep” framework similar to that used by wireless telephone industry, which should reduce billing problems generated by the current system.
Reforms of both the USF and ICC are urgently needed, as both programs have encountered numerous problems with waste and abuse. The CAF program continues using the funding stream provided by the USF fund to provide telephone communications to rural and underserved areas of the country, and expands the USF’s reach to deploy broadband communications to these areas and other locations as part of the administration’s National Broadband Plan.
However, even with these much-needed reforms, the cost for the USF program, which should be eliminated instead of expanded, is ultimately born by the taxpayers. Even without the funding provided by the USF program, the rigorous market-driven competition that is occurring in the telecommunications industry, particularly wireless, will address access and pricing problems. The provision for access to advanced services across the nation without a phase-out plan for the CAF program raises the specter of further expansion of universal service, fostering a continuation of this hidden and unnecessary tax and regulatory scheme.
Connect America Fund: Continuing the Universal Service Fee with No End in Sight
Why you mad? 
