[170109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tei)
Mon Mar 24 10:31:37 2014
In-Reply-To: <201403240947.s2O9lfUC056977@aurora.sol.net>
From: Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:30:50 +0100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 24 March 2014 10:47, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>> Here in Illinois, we have been paying for the construction of our tollway in perpetuity. When it was originally built the state promised to remove the tolls as soon as construction costs were recovered. We are still waiting and will be forever.
>
> As someone who has worked in the Loop on and off for twenty years, I am
> fully aware of the history and folly of the Illinois trollway.
I heard you guys have been paying taxes for the war against my country
(Spain) since 1898.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_telephone_excise_tax
So yea. Is much easier to create a new tax, than to remove it.
