1. Why do we accept the concept of a government agency collecting a fee to do it's job?
2.They are already supported by taxes. Seems like double dipping to me.
3. If the government actually DOES something for us, we have to pay for it's "service"?
4. The FCC wants to join the "bilk the public" party.
Sounds to me like someone who flunked high school civics class.
1. Government workers don't work for free. They need to be paid. Any government function
is fulfilled by government workers. Including the military. No one serves for free. That's called
"slavery."
2. Tax rates, state and federal, in the U.S. are exceedingly low compared to rates in other
industrialized democracies. The numbers are available. When you get services from the government,
including military defense, it costs money. Low tax rates mean government must also charge fees for services.
3. There is no free lunch, anywhere on Earth.
4. Federal agencies do things that, in general, benefit the citizenry. Without an FCC, for example, the airwaves could be so chaotic as to be unusable. Few rational people want that. Most people want their RF-sensitive devices to be reliable.