JD Vance

We learned that with Comcast/Netflix dispute in 2014-2015 when Comcast changed the fees they were charging to Netflix.

When you start taxing one part of the network and not another, there are unintended consequences.

Americans, especially older and lower-income consumers, are paying more for their phone bills, even as the fund grows less solvent.

It's like taxing horseshoes to pay for the highway system, right, and the results are disastrous.

Universal Service Fund is simply not on the sustainable fiscal trajectory for a simple reason.

We learned that with Comcast/Netflix dispute in 2014-2015 when Comcast changed the fees they were charging to Netflix.

When you start taxing one part of the network and not another, there are unintended consequences.

It's like taxing horseshoes to pay for the highway system, right, and the results are disastrous.

Universal Service Fund is simply not on the sustainable fiscal trajectory for a simple reason.

Americans, especially older and lower-income consumers, are paying more for their phone bills, even as the fund grows less solvent.

When you start taxing one part of the network and not another, there are unintended consequences.

It's like taxing horseshoes to pay for the highway system, right, and the results are disastrous.

Universal Service Fund is simply not on the sustainable fiscal trajectory for a simple reason.

Americans, especially older and lower-income consumers, are paying more for their phone bills, even as the fund grows less solvent.

We learned that with Comcast/Netflix dispute in 2014-2015 when Comcast changed the fees they were charging to Netflix.

I think that it is just simply a question of maybe we should go the extra mile to ensure the people who receive the benefits that are owed to American citizens are actually American citizens.

I appreciate and agree with your point that Federal housing assistance rightly is not extended to illegal immigrants.

I think they should go to American citizens.

We do not want to be cruel to people. There is no reason to deny benefits for the sake of denying benefits.

I think it destroys the political will for these programs when we extend them to people who are not even citizens in the country.

I think that a lot of our friends on the other side of the aisle have convinced themselves that lax immigration is somehow a compassionate thing to do.

I think that it is just simply a question of maybe we should go the extra mile to ensure the people who receive the benefits that are owed to American citizens are actually American citizens.

I think they should go to American citizens.

I appreciate and agree with your point that Federal housing assistance rightly is not extended to illegal immigrants.

We do not want to be cruel to people. There is no reason to deny benefits for the sake of denying benefits.