Interesting idea from the US: instead gas tax breaks use the same money for highspeed networks
The context of this is the upcoming election of the next US president and although I'm not a US citizen and have anything to say about this particular topic it does refer to a thought I carry with me since the early days of running an Internet Access Provider in Germany back in 1994.
Dave Winer in Scripting News for 5/2/2008:
And the money we’d give up for Federal gasoline tax could be better spent on putting high capacity network lines under our streets to increase communication. Some of the car trips must be to exchange information that coud be replaced by moving packets around at gigabit speeds. It wouldn’t cost much to retrofit a few cities with really high speed lines, then we could get to work on developing the services that would make life more interesting, fun and efficient.
Posted by Stephan Schwab on May 3, 2008 2:47:46 PM EST
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